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partitioning?installing?

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i have a 60 GB hard drive. 30 of that is for xp i went to manually set up my partitions with my ntfs drive for xp, a 5620 MB ext3 partition called /LINUX for the Linux OS a 2048 MB swap partition and the rest of it i made it fat32 with a /HOME directory. when i click next it says "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu."

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#1

Are you doing this from the live Ubuntu CD or something else? I'm thinking it's the live CD so correct me if I'm wrong.

Anyway, when you manually partition you have to specify a mount point for each partition. In the case of the /linux partiton you would specify that as the root. Also, you don't want to name it. It should just be /. That is probably the reason for the error.

As for the /home partition, I know that making it fat32 will make it easy to access from both Ubuntu and windows but you will lose the benefits of using ext3 since fat32 doesn't have file permissions, it gets fragmented and there is a 4gb size limit.

See http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning for more info on planning your partitions.

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Best Cesare Montedonico (cmontedonico) said : 		#2

when you do the partition table need to specify a mount point for the root file system... just like /HOME in the fat32, create / on the ext3.. thats all. I hope this help.

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Cesare Montedonico (cmontedonico) said : 		#3

when you do the partition table need to specify a mount point for the root file system... just like /HOME in the fat32, create / on the ext3.. thats all. I hope this help.

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Jay (jgaugler) said : 		#4

Yeah when i was creating the partitions i made the mount point for fat32 /HOME and the ext3 /LINUX instead of just /. i got everything installed correctly thanks alot. one quick question though: when i click on my drive on the desktop it displays the C: ntfs drive for windows, i thought it didnt recognize ntfs. and how do i access the /HOME mount point i created and where is it located within the drives?