You may not be able to under Vista. Boot into the liveCD and go through the installer. Watch your installation dialogs VERY CLOSELY as you will have the opportunity to RESIZE your current partition down to give room for Ubuntu. Choose the unallocated space that you just created by reducing your Windows volume and you shouldn't have much of an issue.
Again, VERY CAREFUL on the dialogs and it should go smoothly. On Jan 10, 7:00 pm, fr36 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie trying to install ubuntu by dual booting it with vista. > I created a partition in my hard drive in vista and then loaded Ubuntu > live CD. > > On the 'Prepare Disk Space' screen, I chose Manual since I don't want > to lose Vista which is what happened earlier when I had used Guided - > use largest continuous free space. After choosing manual, I got the > freed up space in the list, but I am not allowed to chose it. When I > select it and click on Forward, I get the error: > No Root File System is defined. Please correct this from the > partitioning menu. > > I clicked on Edit Partition to check the options available. I have > options to 'Use As', 'Format' and 'Mount Point'. Do I need to do > something to these so that the computer allows me to install ubuntu on > this hard drive? Do I need to boot back into vista and do something > there as it is 'unallocated space' right now in vista. > > Thanks.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
