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Cheking the installation... when running 1st time

Asked by Ismail Rachid

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 as a Windows program (from inside Windows) in a separate partition of the HD on an Asus laptop F5R with intel celeron M.
When running Ubuntu for the 1st time and after checking the installation, at the stage of:
"Installing system
0%
Formatting swap space in partition#1 of /host/ubuntu/disk..."
the system stops and does not continue the installation.
Thanks in advance for your help in this issue,
Ismail Rachid

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Please install Ubuntu properly. Installing it inside Windows means it has to rely on Windows systems working properly but this way, from the links, makes a much mor robust and flexible system, well worth the little extra effort
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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FD (fdouw) said : 		#2

From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide I got: “If the installation fails while formatting the swap virtual disk it means that your drive is excessively fragmented. Uninstall, run jkdefrag on the target drive, then run wubi again.”

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