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Im currently running Windows 7(64) on my laptop and i wanted to duel boot Ubuntu. Im having a problem on step 4 of 7 of installation, the partition step. I ...
  1. 02-10-2009 #1
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    Ubuntu duel boot issues

    Im currently running Windows 7(64) on my laptop and i wanted to duel boot Ubuntu. Im having a problem on step 4 of 7 of installation, the partition step. I shrunk my C drive so that i have 10GB of free space to make an ubuntu partition. So when i go to manual partition install i have it set to make a new partition for ubuntu out of the 10gb free space. when i press forward it gives me an error message with something along the lines of "No defined root something. change this is the partitions menu." I am very new to linux and have NO idea what to do at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Select newly created partition and assign it / mount point.

    In case it doesn't work, open Terminal and execute this
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    sudo fdisk -l
    Post output here.

    * Its small L in fdisk -l.
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    Ty, and when i assign the partition to /mount point what type of partition should i save that as ?
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    Format that partition in ext3 filesystem.
    I would suggest you to create 2 partitions.

    10-15GB, ext3 for /
    512 MB, SWAP

    Installer will detect SWAP partition itself.
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    Some Tips

    the "/" symbol is the linux version of the "c:" of windows
    linux uses ext3 where as windows uses ntfs.

    When dual booting, always install WIndows first, then install linux and then grub boot loader.

    WIndows 7 is released already? Beta version right?
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    WIndows 7 is released already? Beta version right?
    Yeah ! Windows 7 Beta is freely available.
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    Yeh I thought so, thanks Devil
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