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changing existing partitons during installation

Asked by helmut.hings@teksavvy.com

Having failed multiple times installing both Ubuntu and Kubuntu from both a purchased disk and downloaded and burned ISO files because of "no root system defined" I gather that the installation tries to massage the existing partitions (3 in the first 1000GB HDD, 1 in each of two 500 GB HDDs). First, I do not understand why this may be so - there is plenty of space all around - and second, how can I avoid this and not have my configuration messed up and perhaps brought out of control and still install Ubuntu/Kubuntu on partition 2 of the first disk sda2 ? Thanks to all for any assistance. Helmut JH

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you use the "something else" option, you can specify your own partitions and what they are used for. You will need at least one partition for / (formatted Ext4 by default, if you are unsure what to use, use that) and one for swap.

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helmut.hings@teksavvy.com (helmut-hings) said : 		#2

Thank you, Andrew Woodhead
Unfortunately, I have not come across "something else". Here is what appears after I reset the desktop with the Kubuntu disk in the drive and after I have selected "install Kubuntu": I clicked download "install updates" only and "continue". A screen with five options appears, the first four of which are not attractive to me: I do not want/need to resize and use freed space, using a whole disk is less appealing as it implies erasing any existing content on the disk, which includes my Win 7 OS. Having no comprehension of the two remaining options I chose the "manual" button and a screen "prepare partitions" comes up. This screen shows correctly my three HDDs with the actual number and sizes of partitions. There are four buttons shown below the list of partitions of which I am again unable to make any sense, but all I know to do here is highlight the intended partition /dev/sda2 (disk0 partition 2) and also highlight sda2 for the destination of the root loader. Clicking "install" brings up the dreaded "no root system defined" please go back to the partitioning menu and correct this error. At that stage my only choice is "quit" and two restarts are needed before Win 7 starts normally again. Perhaps the above facilitates opening some other avenue out of this
impasse. Regards Helmut JH

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