Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[logan01]

I'm proceeding forward w/ install. wth

[logan01]

crap. I clicked install now and got the following: no root file system is defined. please correct from the partitioning menu. the prepare partitions window is still open.

[Qqmike]

Yes, that's right! Your partitions are still good, but you DO have to tell the installer HOW you want those partitions used (root /, home, swap) -- same steps you did before.

[logan01]

do i click "change" the only options turned on are change, delete, undo all changes. turned off are add, new partition table.

[Qqmike]

change

[logan01]

ok, got a drop down menu with several options. do you need all their names? these are listed under "use as". I also have "format the partition" and "mount point".

[logan01]

got out of change. i do see each partition I created. do I highlight each of the 3 partitions, select change and .......?

[Qqmike]

yes, highlight each one -- one at a time, then for the currently highlighted partition hit Change and set it up (as /, home, or swap No need to reformat anything except it MAY insist that it reformats Swap--if so, that's OK, let it format the Swap again.

[Qqmike]

yes "use as" ...
/ (root)
home
swap

you only need those.

[Qqmike]

Didn't you do this before, on your first attempt to install?

[logan01]

getting closer. selected the swap partition and selected "swap area" for the "use as". selected another (sda8) which i know is my root and selected "ext4 journaling file system" and it gave it the root symbol (/).

I now have the home partition but it doesn't say "home" when i go to change it there is no "home". Doesn't it also get the "ext4 journaling file system" designator. The other choices don't ring a bell. C'mon, we're getting close.

[logan01]

the choices for change are:
ext4 journaling file system
ext3 journaling file system
btrfs journaling file system
jfs journaling file system
xfs journaling file system
fat16 file system
fat32 file system
swap area
reserved bios boot area
efi boot partition
physical volume for encryption
do not use this partition..
Nothing mentioning home.

[logan01]

Didn't you do this before, on your first attempt to install?

I did. I reckon that's why i see them though they didn't say root, swap, home.

sda7 now says swap in the Type column
sda8 now says ext4 and has the root symbol in the mount point column (almost on the imaginary line separating Type/Mount Point columns.
sda9 says ext4 in the Type column but has nothing else and there is no "home" to choose when I click change.

[logan01]

ok. I missed something. They are now all assigned so to speak. Now clicking install now again.

[logan01]

crap. I clicked install and now this: the file system on /dev/sda8 assigned to / has not been marked for formatting. Directories containing systems files (/etc, /lib, /usr, /var, ...) that already exist under any defined mountpoint will be deleted during the install. Please ensure you have backed up any critical data before installing.

I then have the choice of clicking continue or go back. sda8 is my /root partition. the window i'm doing all this in does have a format column with a clickable button for each /dev/sda.