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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Now it is the Ubuntu learning process for me. Is it possible to add a swap
partition now?</DIV>
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<DIV>Many, many thanks.</DIV>
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<A title=bill.aitken@prostrakan.com
href="mailto:bill.aitken@prostrakan.com">Bill Aitken</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
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for general discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:47
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Install problem</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>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).<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Regards<BR>Bill<BR><BR><BR><BR>miner wrote:
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<DIV>My system is Windows XP with 4 partitions...25 GB for drive C which
contains all my programs and the rest divided evenly.</DIV>
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<DIV>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"</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Any help will be appreciated. </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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