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| Thread ID: 126670 | 2012-09-11 02:44:00 | Linux Questions | Nick G (16709) | Press F1 |
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| 1300331 | 2012-09-14 01:11:00 | Ok, my next question. I have the boot loader going on /dev/sda2, which is my primary partition where windows is. I have linux going on /dev/sda5. I go to click install. and get this. 'no root file system is defined. Please select one from the partitioning menu'. What??? :confused: You need to define at least one partition for Linux and give it "/" mount point. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300332 | 2012-09-14 01:14:00 | You need to define at least one partition for Linux and give it "/" mount point. Oh, ok, So I stick the / on the one I want to install linux on? Will do, thanks. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300333 | 2012-09-14 01:18:00 | Ok, I now have a pretty small partition for swap space, and my 200gb partition that I want to put linux on to formatted as ext2, with a / mount point. Have I got this right? | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300334 | 2012-09-14 01:25:00 | Ok, my next question. I have the boot loader going on /dev/sda2, which is my primary partition where windows is. I have linux going on /dev/sda5. I go to click install. and get this. 'no root file system is defined. Please select one from the partitioning menu'. What??? :confused: First of all, I don't think you want to install the bootloader to your Windows partition ;) How are you planning on loading the various OSs? With Windows or Grub? IIRC to fix that error message you need to put in a \ somewhere, can't exactly remember where though (someone else can assist here). |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1300335 | 2012-09-14 01:33:00 | Ok, I now have a pretty small partition for swap space, and my 200gb partition that I want to put linux on to formatted as ext2, with a / mount point. Have I got this right? Sounds good, but I would go with ext3 or ext4 if available as they are newer\better Don't make swap too small, though. If you want to use hibernation swap needs to be at least the same size as your RAM or larger. For most usage though, 512MB is probably all you need. On this machine with 4GB RAM the swap was automatically created at 900MB |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300336 | 2012-09-14 01:34:00 | First of all, I don't think you want to install the bootloader to your Windows partition ;) How are you planning on loading the various OSs? With Windows or Grub? IIRC to fix that error message you need to put in a \ somewhere, can't exactly remember where though (someone else can assist here). Was planning on using the windows bootloader. Where would you recommend placing it? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300337 | 2012-09-14 01:35:00 | Sounds good, but I would go with ext3 or ext4 if available as they are newer\better Ok, will do. I have my '/' in the right place? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300338 | 2012-09-14 01:37:00 | Sounds good, but I would go with ext3 or ext4 if available as they are newer\better Go for Ext3 for the boot partition and Ext4 for the rest. I always create the minimum of / , /boot , /home. Just put grub on the MBR and it will pick up Windows no problem. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300339 | 2012-09-14 01:39:00 | Ok, will do. I have my '/' in the right place? Only you can really answer that. Have you selected the correct drive\partition that you want to install to? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1300340 | 2012-09-14 01:47:00 | Sounds good, but I would go with ext3 or ext4 if available as they are newer\better Don't make swap too small, though. If you want to use hibernation swap needs to be at least the same size as your RAM or larger. For most usage though, 512MB is probably all you need. On this machine with 4GB RAM the swap was automatically created at 900MB My swap is 4287mb, so same size as my ram. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
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