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[tlug] installing Ubuntu on Panasonic CF-R4



I installed ubuntu-7.04 or "Feisty Fawn" on my Toshiba without a hitch.
(Wiping the hard drive clean etc..) Works great, but Toshiba too heavy to carry around.


I have a Panasonic CF-R4, and have been trying to install ubuntu-7.04
or "Feisty Fawn" on it, with no luck so far.

*Note: I do not want to erase the XP or the recovery section (orders from no.2).
(It does not come with a back up CD, as recovery is installed on the hard drive)


I have used the r4 setup Utility to partition the Harddrive,
and re-installed XP on partition 1.
I have also burned a copy of
ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso
to a CD and am using that to try to install Ubuntu on partition 2.
(Is that the correct version for the CF-R4?)

Booting up from the CD works. I click on the install Icon,
and the install procedure starts.

In the partition part, I choose Manual, and
double-click partition 2 (/dev/sda2) and change Type to ext3,
register it, then choose partition 2 (/dev/sda2)
then click the forward button to go to the next stage...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ -
Prepare Partitions Window (For install)


Device      Type      Mount Point     Format       Size      Used

/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ntfs /media/sda1 40805 MB 4400 MB
/dev/sda2 ext3 /media/sda1 Check 15981 MB 3200 MB
free space 3224 MB
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -



which is where I hit the proverbial brick wall... and get this error message: --------------------------------------------- No root file system is defined Please correct this from the partitioning menu. ---------------------------------------------

I don't see anything labeled as the partitioning menu.

I double click on /dev/sda2 and can change the mount point (?) to
/, /boot, /dev/sda,  /etc....
but it still doesn't work.

Any ideas on how to get past this?
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,

Bruce McIntosh

Panasonic CF-R4
ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso





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