[ale] Update: Trouble installing ubuntu 6.10

[Jim Philips]

On Friday 29 December 2006 01:50, Tim Watts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apparently, Ubuntu does not want to install on a primary partition. When I
> tried using extended partitions it let me proceed to the next step. Anyone
> else seen this? Is there a workaround?
>
> On Friday 29 December 2006 01:02, Tim Watts wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 in a sandbox partition. I'm having
> > trouble on the step where you designate which partition it will be
> > installed into. I put the root partiton (/) on sda4 (20GB) and the swap
> > on sda9 (2GB). But when I go to the next step it won't go, saying that
> > there is no root partition selected.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? How did you get past it?

A search of the Kubuntu forums found a similar situation. The guy in the forum 
was thinking of reformatting the partition in Windows and then reformatting 
it as ext3 in Kubuntu. Of course, this would mean you don't want the Windows 
stuff on the primary partition.