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mario46
December 20th, 2014, 08:30 PM
Hi everyone.

So I was trying to install Ubuntu and I stumbled upon this problem...
To be completely honest I don't know much about Ubuntu in the first place.
First of all, I downloaded Ubuntu from Ubuntu's official site. (I think it was the 14.10 version)
Once it was done I extracted it, I ran Wubi application...
A menu popped up asking me for a username, password, disk space etc...
I filled it and clicked OK. So it started downloading/installing, not really sure...
Once it was done, it asked me if I wanted to restart the computer now or later.
I clicked Restart now and once it restarted Ubuntu logo showed up and finally the startup menu showed up.
It said "Installing" in the pop up bar and suddenly a message appeared saying: "No root file system is defined."
All I could do was to click "OK" and that's pretty much it... I restarted the computer and I got to choose between Windows 7 or Ubuntu (I was running Win 7 before obviously), but when I click on Windows 7, it won't start and when I click on Ubuntu same thing happens. I tried running Demo version of Ubuntu when booting and it worked fine. I saw an app called "Install Ubuntu" so I clicked on it and I would choose to install Ubuntu over Windows 7 but installing would go on forever with no progress bar showned.

I really don't know what to do so please help. I would very much appreciate any replies.

Mario

lisati
December 20th, 2014, 08:59 PM
Please do not start multiple threads for the same question, it dilutes the community's ability to help.

Duplicate of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2257542 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2257541 closed.