Install problem

[miner]

Success. Thanks Bill you were on the right track. I had 2 active partitions and an extended one with 2 logical ones inside. Following your note, I formatted the second active partition and then did not have any problems installing Ubuntu.

A small hitch though as for some reason I was not given an option to select a swap partition but I went ahead with the install. Everything works well, Windows included although it does not label the Ubuntu partition calling it "healthy unknown partition". This is probably normal in this situation and besides I know what it is.

Now it is the Ubuntu learning process for me. Is it possible to add a swap partition now?

Many, many thanks.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Aitken 
  To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions 
  Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:47 PM
  Subject: Re: Install problem



  If all four are primary partitions then you've hit the limit set in your hard disk's MBR.  Any individual hard disk only has enough space in it's partition table (stored in the MBR) for four entries. Each primary partition takes up one entry. An extended partition also takes up one entry, but may be further sub-divided into logical drive (but this information is stored within the extended partition itself).

  The above limit exists regardless of operating system, therefore this is not an ubuntu issue per say.  The easiest solution would be to free up (i.e use/overwrite) one of your four partitions.  Provided you don't choose your XP partition, XP should be fine.

  Regards
  Bill



  miner wrote: 
    My system is Windows XP with 4 partitions...25 GB for drive C which contains all my programs and the rest divided evenly.

    When installing Ubuntu 7.04 from a live CD I run into a block when I get a warning "No root file system defined. Please correct from partition menu"

    I get this warning regardless whether I use the automatic or manual install. I would prefer the manual method as I could direct the install into the partition I want. Under automatic install the installer chooses one of my larger partitions which would be fine provided I do not wipe out Drive C which contains Windows.

    How do I overcome this block. There were several options in the drop down menu but none of them solved the problem. How and where do I define the files system.

    Any help will be appreciated. 




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