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trying to do a dualboot install

Asked by Robert Nelson

WinXp SP3 is installed, Windows installer for Ubuntu is installed

Attempts to install Ubuntu 10.10 hit roadblocks. It try s to take over the entire disk if you want to a manual install.
It creates error messages if you install it inside Windows= "No Root file defined or something to that effect and begins looping if you try to cancel .

I have used several versions of Ubuntu and never had this much trouble trying to install Ubuntu. Why the change in installation possibilites?, always before it would coexist with Windows as long as it was installed after Windows.

In other words prior to Ubuntu 10.10 you could insert the Ubuntu disk that you created the usual way and after you saw the Installer icon on your desktop you could being a easy process to end up with both Ubuntu and Windows.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

I think the "No Root file" means that you have not assigned a partition to install ubuntu to correctly. You must set a partition to use "/" as the mount point. this is where ubuntu will be installed.

Some more info is available here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

Look at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

On his 5th graph, he has a "/home" a windows partition and a "/" partition. This might be something like what you want.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

You are installing Ubuntu using Wubi inside Windows, so this thread is moved to Wubi project, if you want do an usual Ubuntu dual boot installation (i mean Ubuntu on proper partition and not inside Windows) please do not use Wubi .

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#4

It sounds like you want to do a normal (direct) install of ubuntu. If that is the case, you should be able to do a side-by-side install unless you have 4 primary partitions already. If you don't have 4 primary partitions and are still having a problem, then you can create the partitions from a live CD using gparted and then choose "Manual paritioning"; then when you install, select the one(s) you created.

If you really want to install using wubi (which it doesn't sound like you do) then you'll need to provide more detailed information and I'll try and help.

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