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I thought that I had managed to install Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire but when I tried to run there were nofiles so I tried again. I can manage to load in the trial program and setup the network but when I press 'Install Ubuntu' it starts and shows a couple of chat frames then when I select use other options' and it displays my partitions I get them all - I now have 5 partitions, 1: is Al2, 2: swAP-FILE, 3: IS nTFS, 4: NTFS AND 5: UNALLOCATED - ABOUT 12mb

When I select the al2 and configure it for an installation partition I I get a window that says 'Cannot find root file system. Correct this in partition options'.

I have tried all available options under partition editor and they all give same response. What am I doing wrong. Please anyone?

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Refer from Instructions 27 here . You should mention the / ROOT partition on the Partition you wish to install Ubuntu on, try following this Partition design Guide – tijybba Jul 23 '12 at 13:55
When you select the partition, you need to edit it, and assign "/" (root) to that partition. – Marty Fried Jul 23 '12 at 16:24

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