RE: Removing Windows


Subject: RE: Removing Windows
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 07:35:06 AKST


I guess that's supposed to work. I've never used it myself to change the
size of a Linux partition.

Maybe someone else here is more familiar with that.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Dunaway [mailto:fert@eagle.ptialaska.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:47 AM
To: jgribbin@alaska.net
Cc: 'AKLUG'
Subject: Re: Removing Windows

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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>Subject: Removing Windows
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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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