I’ve just been having a thrash at
installing Debian. It requires a partition that is designated as root to
install. Ubuntu is based on Debian so may be the same, but I have never seen
this requirement in any other install (Suse, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu Dapper
etc.) Or on any other partitioner but Debian’s. There again, I have never
looked for it.
George
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Subject: Re: [LUG] Generic plea
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On 25/12/06, Kai
Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 2006-12-24T12:19+0000 Ben Goodger wrote:
> space on sda, although the fstab-gui bit shows all my partitions.
> Unfortunately, whatever I try, I am then told "no root
filesystem" when
> installing. In Feisty's "alternate" ( i.e. non-patronising
installer)
> version, this happens also (I lack alternate discs for Edgy or Dapper.) So
> how do I fix my partition table so that gparted can see it? I presume this
> is the cause of the problem...
Yes, you really need the alternate version of Ubuntu edgy by the sounds
of it. I had a similar install problem sometime ago with the
"desktop"
version.
This doesn't work, it displays a blank HDD as before..
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