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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>
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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>
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Regards<br>
Bill<br>
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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>
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