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I'm stuck installing Ubuntu 14.04 with the partition part of the install. I am downloading and using the net install since I can't burn DVDs, so I just downloaded the mini.iso and burned it to disc and restarted.

I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 along a Windows 7 Home Premium, and I have a 250GB hard drive and have done the partition part, but I get stuck and can't get it to work right. It's listed now on the computer as follows.

  • (windows) #1 - Primary 78.8 GB - B -K Ntfs /
  • (Ubuntu) #5 logical 170.3 GB k ext41 /
  • (swap) #6 logical 1.0GB k swap swap

I don't know how to get it to work right with mounting and it's not letting me mount both #1 and #5 partitions as / . I marked #1 as Bootable and still can't get through and would appreciate any help on how to proceed and keep my Windows 7, and add Ubuntu side by side Thanks.

Also, I don't have the original Win 7 Home Premium restore disks of any kind, and any help would be appreciated.

John Nicks

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Ordinarily, each filesystem partition that you want to access in Linux has a unique mount point; you can't simultaneously mount two partitions at root (/). Furthermore, you can't use an NTFS volume as your Linux root (/) filesystem. If you want to access your Windows partition from Linux, you must give it some other mount point, such as /mnt/windows. Because Windows contains no special system files from Linux's perspective, there's no need to give it any privileged mount point.

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