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BT4 - Install to HD

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Can someone assist with information on installing operating systems onto a hard drive? I want to install BT4 and other Linux machines. I understand formatting hard drives pretty well and I can absolutely wipe all the information off. I am not good at getting the hard drive ready for a clean installation of Operating Systems with a CD.
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Peace p4inl0v3r,

I dont get a chance to partition in BT4. I get an empty list. I run the ubiquity installer and select a location and keyboard layout. When the "Prepare Partitions" list comes up, it is empty. I click forward to see what will happen next and get an error, "No root file system", "No root file system defined", "Please correct this from the partitioning menu".

I am stuck after this. If a format and partition of the hard drive is required b/c this is basically a clean install, how do i do that? Can BT4 do that also?

Appreciate the help
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hm, I've never installed BT4, so I have no idea if there is a guided partition tool....if not you will simply have to create the partitions manually.
don't worry, it's easy, you need 2 partitions:

- the root partition /
- and the swap space

so simply create a primary partition for / and a swap partition (for the latter one 2GB is enough).

if you want to go a little more professional you can add a /home partition, you user data will be stored there then.

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Post by sun7 »

peace and thanks for the information.

I had to format my hard drive before this install. I still cant install with bt4 and what are the commands? I am searching for the commands but i am not getting success after i attempt. What commands do you recommend to format my hard drive the proper way so that my hard drive is ready for a bt4 install when complete? I want to get good at formatting my HD through linux bt4 and then start installing server operating systems.

I basically need to master formatting and installation of operating systems..
any further assistance is greatly appreciated.

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the ubiquity installer does not recognize anything on my system.

i am using a windows xp cd to do an install and it said that the hard drive was not formatted properly and ran a format. i am waiting to see if windows xp will format my hard drive the proper way so that i can install bt4.

p4in,
in your 1st and 2nd paragraph you mentioned the partition manager. I am confused on what you are saying...


Is it a command to format the Hard drive with bt4 to get the system ready for BT4 installation?

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Well I formatted the hard drive and i still could not install bt4 to HD. I had to do a complete install of XP and put BT4 on top of that. This is not what I wanted to do. I have so many questions about BT4 it is crazy.



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well, to format the HDD by using the XP CD is pointless because it uses NTFS as filesystem.
if you are overstrained by the BT4 HDD setup get the gparted live CD:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

boot it, delete every partition, create a primary partition / in ext3 format and a swap partition (2GB or so). when done BT4 should recognize everything and install out of the box... :wink:
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I installed it fine, it's basically the same installer as ubuntu if i remember correctly, in grub it even says its ubuntu lol

i would recommend that u try installing another linux before messing about with BT4.

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Peace everyone

p4in, you are right. i got it now. I had to do the whole install with XP and then I went back to check and windows isnt coming up at all. I just need to get my formatting and install skills up. This is only my second time installing a linux OS . Thanks for the help and swift replies.

bad_b, I am going to install that and I am going to see what happens. I was looking for that type of answer. "A tool I can run from CD to whipe my HDD or the proper commands to wipe my HDD with BT4. I'll let you know how it works when I download and test on my machines. Appreciate that.

pprinter, Thats great that your install worked fine for you. I dont use Ubuntu so I dont know whats the same and whats not. Im definately not going to change operating systems.

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BT4 has a install.sh file built in the GUI part which will install it for you to the HD.
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