partition type

Asked by Oliver Wilkerson

I have a hard drive with roughly 80GB of NTFS (with WindowsXP on it) and 40GB of non-partitioned space.
When I run the ubuntu 7.04 boot disk and try to install, it lets me get through setting up the keyboard, connecting to my network, etc,
but when it gets to partitioning the hard drive, no matter what option I pick (excluding "full disk" -- getting rid of my XP partition is not an option currently)
cd-rom
cd-rom
Guided-full disk
Guided-use largest available empty space

I get the following error: a "window" titled "[!!] Partition disks" with the following text:
No root file system
No root file system is defined.
Please correct this from the partitioning menu.

and it gives me the option to "Continue" or "Go Back" both of which just continuously loop through this error

Any ideas as to the cause and what I should do?

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said :
#1

Thank you for your question.

When you do the partition you need told to the installer a root mount point maybe you see something like /media/hda2 you need change to / this mean this would be your root file system

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Oliver Wilkerson (oliverseal) said :
#2

Thanks for the info.
However I never even get prompted for anything of that sort. It just gives me the options above and I can't get past that point.

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said :
#3

ok.

did you selected Guided-use largest available empty space ?

did you defragmenting in windows before install ubuntu ?

did you have a sata or id disk ?

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Oliver Wilkerson (oliverseal) said :
#4

did you selected Guided-use largest available empty space ?
Yes

did you defragmenting in windows before install ubuntu ?
Yes

did you have a sata or id disk ?
IDE

Still have the same problem.

I greatly appreciate your help.

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said :
#5

Could you please attach /var/log/syslog and /var/log/partman

following the directions in http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUbiquity/

or Maybe Do you want do the manual partition ?

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Oliver Wilkerson (oliverseal) said :
#6

Perhaps the manual partition is what I have to do. I can't seem to get the logs you're looking for. The system never "crashes", it just constantly gives me the error in an infinite loop. I don't think I have access to the log files.

Do you have links to tutorials/specs of what my manual partition should be?

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) said :
#7

Maybe this can help you https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
if don't let me know

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Matt Oquist (moquist) said :
#8

I'm having what sounds like a variation of the same problem.

I'm using the ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso on a system with 6 SCSI drives, and I want to set up RAID1 for /boot and RAID5 for /.

When I select "use entire disk" it works.

When I select "manual" I get the infinite loop of prompts as described above:

No root file system
No root file system is defined.
Please correct this from the partitioning menu.

I'm still working on this. I'm using the alternate CD so I'm not using Ubiquity... Also, FWIW, I've seen the alternate CD do RAID configuration just fine on identical hardware in the past.

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kangaroux (kanga) said :
#9

Only a few months late, but I have just stumbled across this page after having the same problem.

Try right-clicking on the partition you want to use. A pop-up menu with an 'edit partition' option appears.
This seems to be the partioning menu in question.

Choose '/' as root parttition.

Linux has more booby-traps than the Ho Chi Minh trail ever did.

Good luck

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bensam40 (bensam40) said :
#10

ext3/2,reiserfs,jfs,fat16/32,ntfs,swap,efi,dontuse. which kind of partition for ubuntu7.04 ?

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