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Old 04-25-2017, 10:54 AM   #1
zimbot
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problem installing ubuntu next to win 7


I have made many dual boot machines
1. have win 7 installed
2. shrink volume to have some unallocated
3. pick install along size
...easy

but now I have a dell wx8400 that org had xp32 and was updated to win 7... that was on a wee 300 GB drive
I wish to have dual boot on a New 1 TB drive
so I made a windows back up disk image / a file.iso
booted to the win 7 emergency start cd
restored the iso of xp/updated to win 7...all is well

But now I put the ubuntu optical in

and It never get to the " along side page"
I get to the check boxes of
Update at time of install , install mp3 etc etc

but on the screen that should show my sda1

And yes if i run gparted I show a sda1...HPS/NTFS bootable

but the installer never shows sdaNum
and If I continue

I says " no root partition "

and fails

what the heck?

windows boots OK

I just do not get it. I have tried 12.04 & 14.04 .... what is the deal with my current drive/partitioning/install

Thanks

jS
 
Old 04-25-2017, 01:55 PM   #2
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Just to clarify a few points, you have one drive (1TB) and you have windows 7 installed on it and it boots, correct?
This is an MBR install, not UEFI?
You are not using fastboot or hibernation?
You did create unallocated space on the drive from windows?
The 'root partition' error you report is pretty common when no mount point is selected for root (/) in the installer. Maybe if you posted the output of: sudo fdisk -l it would give us more information.
Have you tried the manual method, something else?
The link below has a detailed tutorial on installing 14.04 as an MBR install only.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/u...all-guide.html
 
Old 04-26-2017, 07:54 AM   #3
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phixed it

It seems that the HD that i was installing onto { the 1 TB ] ... was *not* new...
It had once been part of a raid.
at any rate
the solution was to dlt all partitions -- not enough to format
rather

windows : diskpart , select the disk , clean
now it all raw
now it behaved as expected

it was mbr

thanks
 
  


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