[ale] Update: Trouble installing ubuntu 6.10

[Tim Watts]

FYI: The workaround is here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=325371&highlight=no+root+file+system

On Friday 29 December 2006 07:40, Jim Philips wrote:
> 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.
>
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