Comment 3 for bug 68520

I'm seeing the same problem. I'm trying to do an install on an HP R3000Z (AMD64) laptop that currently has Fedora Core 5 and 6 as well as WinXP on it. I'm trying to replace FC5 with Ubuntu 6.10. I've selected the FC5 partition to use as / for Ubuntu and set the reformat box. I'm getting a "No root file system error". All Linux current Linux Partitions are EXT3. Here is df from FC6,

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 8130996 4549784 3161516 60% /
tmpfs 777648 0 777648 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 8130996 4223776 3487524 55% /fc5
/dev/hda8 57344508 48357656 6073868 89% /home