I'm trying to install ubuntu 10.10 alongside my windows 7 on my CQ10-525dx Netbook. I don't see the "Install alongside..." button so i clicked the advanced button. My options are:
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I'm trying to give ubuntu 80 GB partition along with the rest to my windows 7. How do I do this?
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I want to install ubuntu 11.04 from cd alongside windows 7. I get to the choose partition screen, which looks like this.
Size Used
dev sda
dev sda1 ntfs 314 MB 105 MB
dev sda2 ntfs 301501 MB 39823 MB
dev sda3 ntfs 16106 MB 13282 MB
dev sda4 fat32 2142 MB 32 MB
When I click Install Now, I get this error message. No root file system is defined
I'm not very experienced in working with Ubuntu. I did try it using Wubi to install and that I liked very much. But now with the latest version (10.10) the wubi installer isn't showing every option. How do I get the old interface where you can install it alongside Windows? The first attachment is what I get when opening wubi.exe and the second one is what I would like. That is a 10.04 version.
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I don't have an option to "Install alongside other OS"
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I noticed that in the past, someone mentioned that I could install Ubuntu inside of Windows 7, so if I wanted to get rid of Ubuntu, all I would have to do is go to the Windows control panel and uninstall it. How do you do this?
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SYSTEM 199 MB capacity, 83% free
UBUNTU (F: 60 GB, 100% free
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The installer does NOT offer the "alongside" installation option. I also tried a 10.04 live CD installer, and it also did not offer the side-by-side option. So neither installer can see Win7 on the disk. Now how do I do the installation? I'd like to dual-boot rather than devote the laptop to UBUNTU-only.
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I can use Ubuntu from my flash drive, but I want to install it in a partition alongside windows. When I try to do this, I come to an 'allocate drive space' window, but whatever I do I get the error message: 'No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.' I just don't know what this means, or what to do next. I'm loathe to ditch windows, and I don't want to have to use a flashdrive all the time.
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