Subject: Re: Removing Windows
From: Matthew Dunaway (fert@eagle.ptialaska.net)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 01:47:06 AKST
I have Partition Magic installed on her computer. Could I use that to
delete the Windows partition, then re-size the linux partition to use
the whole 20 gig drive?
I used Partition Magic to create the Linux partitions, so seems logical
that I can use it to remove the windows partition??????
Jim Gribbin wrote:
>You should be able to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the line(s)
>referring to dos. Use mkfs.ext3 to format the windows partition, probably
>hda1, as ext3. Create a mount point under /mnt. Maybe /mnt/spare? Edit
>/etc/fstab to mount the new partition at boot.
>
>You could also, in theory anyway, use LVM to logically add the new partition
>to an existing partition. This gets more complicated and I haven't played
>with this as yet.
>
>Jim
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>Hello,
>My wife has a dual-boot Windows 98/RedHat 9 box. She wants me to remove
>Windows. How do I remove windows without damaging her RH 9 partition and
>all of her data and also get rid of the option to boot into windows from
>grub?
>I know how to get rid of linux on a dual boot, but not Windows. I have a
>Windows 98 start-up disk.
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