Install problem

[Niels Larsen]

On Monday 10 September 2007 02:50:30 miner wrote:
> 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?
You can always create a swap partition e.g. with the gparted program which can 
be downloaded from here: 
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
***

You can also look at the: 
http://www.minihowto.org 

with various minihowtos for newbies - please note it is mainly directed 
towards the KDE desktop on ubuntu.

>
> 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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