Installing 7.10 i386

[tonym86]

I am trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on my HP pavilion dv2000(Core 2 Duo T8100). I have a 11ish GB partition on my hard drive. I am planning on having Ubuntu to play around with, not as a primary OS.

I can get it to boot from cd, and install starts smoothly. When I get to the partitioner, i click manual, and it sees the partion, along with the main one that has vista on it. I select it and say forward, and it pops up with something like this:

root file system not defined

I figured out how to define it, but I am clueless as what to define. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Pumalite]

Your first partition has to be 'root' ('/')
Plant a / where it says 'mount point'

[Pumalite]

This might be of interest to you:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582220

[tonym86]

Thanks for the info. Yet another checkmark for why I should have bought a Mac. I will try the root thing, and then if I have troubles, I will try the newest version. I did download the latest, but I apparently burned it to disk wrong, because it won't boot. I had a functioning 7.1o disk.

Thanks again!

[tonym86]

An update:

I put a / in the mount point, and I was able to install it. Now, I get to have the fun of figuring out how to get it to play nice with my laptop!

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Pumalite]

You are welcome. Good luck!