Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

robinbredin

robinbredin

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Hi, What it is im trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my other SATA drive. When I get to the
Prepare Partitions
I then get this info comes up

\dev\sda Size Used
\dev\sda1 ntfs 500105mb 78252mb

\dev\sdb
\dev\sdb1 ntfs 10485mb 3222mb

dev\sdb2 ntfs 69537mb 3221mb


What it is i'm try to put in in the sdb2 partition which ha 69GB free. When I highlight it and press forward, i get an dialog box saying
No Root File system
No Root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
Anybody any ideas how i can install it on my 69GB partition.:mad:
 
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You need to tell the installer you want to use the 69Gb partition as the root filesystem.

Not used the Ubuntu installer in a while but on Debian I'd do this:
Select the /dev/sdb2 partition
Format it as ext3
Where it says 'use as' select '/'

Hope this helps.
 
I got in on using ext3 and mount / . But hit a snag, when I download a graphics card driver from ATI and tried to load it, and it would not load, it said Current locate(UTF-8). I forgot to write the rest of the message, but it did come up in red.
 
The error message went like this, Could not open file /home/robin/download/at...aller-9-10-x86.x86-64 run. Then i had that Current locate(UTF-8)
 
My first impressions of Ubuntu 9.10 are it is good and fast. The only downside is, I have it loaded on another drive while duel booting with Win 7 Pro, and I dont like that GRUB.
 
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