how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?

[William Mattison]

I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora 18 install.  The installation guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7.

I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media provides.

Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.

Install over it would be the easiest way to do it.
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Mattison 
Sender: [e-mail]
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:04:38 
To: 
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
Subject: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?

I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora 18 install.  The installation guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7.

I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media provides.

Thank-you in advance for your help.
Bill.

follow-up - Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?

[William Mattison]

Thank-you, David.  I will try it.  - Bill.

--- On Wed, 3/13/13, [e-mail]  wrote:
> From: [e-mail] 
> Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:01 AM
> Install over it would be the easiest
> way to do it.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Mattison 
> Sender: [e-mail]
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:04:38 
> To: 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
>
> I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live
> Media) and Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora
> 18 install.  The installation guide (section 20.2.1)
> discusses how to do this if the windows install is Windows
> 2000, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003,
> Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008, but not Windows 7.
>
> I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can
> re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd
> rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media
> provides.
>
> Thank-you in advance for your help.
> Bill.
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[Tim]

On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 08:04 -0700, William Mattison wrote:
> I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and
> Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora 18 install.

If you find that you're unable to install over the top, as the other
reply suggests, and as some posts on this list seem to suggest that some
people have had trouble doing, you can:

Boot from some other Linux disc (including the install disc), make your
way into a command line, run the "fdisk" program and delete the Linux
partition(s).

If, for example, your Linux partition was on /dev/sda2, then it'd be
something like this:

fdisk /dev/sda

Press the "m" key then enter, to see fdisk's menu; press the hotkey to
delete a partition, choose the right partition to remove, then write the
partition table to disk and quit out of the fdisk program.

Now, the details about what was your Fedora partition is lost, so an
install should believe that part of the disc is unused and available.

[William Mattison]

Thank-you, Tim.  I plan to attempt the install today.  - Bill.

--- On Thu, 3/14/13, Tim  wrote:
> From: Tim 
> Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
> Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 6:52 AM
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 08:04 -0700,
> William Mattison wrote:
> > I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the
>
> Live Media) and
> > Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora 18
>
> install.
>
> If you find that you're unable to install over the top, as
> the other
> reply suggests, and as some posts on this list seem to
> suggest that some
> people have had trouble doing, you can:
>
> Boot from some other Linux disc (including the install
> disc), make your
> way into a command line, run the "fdisk" program and delete
> the Linux
> partition(s).
>
> If, for example, your Linux partition was on /dev/sda2, then
> it'd be
> something like this:
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
>
> Press the "m" key then enter, to see fdisk's menu; press the
> hotkey to
> delete a partition, choose the right partition to remove,
> then write the
> partition table to disk and quit out of the fdisk program.
>
> Now, the details about what was your Fedora partition is
> lost, so an
> install should believe that part of the disc is unused and
> available.
>
> -- 
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is
> ignored.  I
> read messages from the public lists.
>
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[Dokuro]

I made a blog post about my installation and it is the same win7 fed18
setup!

here I failed
http://dokuro-web-dev.blogspot.com/2013/01/installing-fedoras-spherical-cow....
and here I made it!
http://dokuro-web-dev.blogspot.com/2013/01/anaconda-2-cows-revenge.html

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, William Mattison wrote:
> Thank-you, Tim.  I plan to attempt the install today.  - Bill.
>
> --- On Thu, 3/14/13, Tim  wrote:
> > From: Tim 
> > Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
> > To: "Community support for Fedora users" 
> > Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 6:52 AM
> > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 08:04 -0700,
> > William Mattison wrote:
> > > I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the
> >
> > Live Media) and
> > > Windows 7 home.  I need to delete the Fedora 18
> >
> > install.
> >
> > If you find that you're unable to install over the top, as
> > the other
> > reply suggests, and as some posts on this list seem to
> > suggest that some
> > people have had trouble doing, you can:
> >
> > Boot from some other Linux disc (including the install
> > disc), make your
> > way into a command line, run the "fdisk" program and delete
> > the Linux
> > partition(s).
> >
> > If, for example, your Linux partition was on /dev/sda2, then
> > it'd be
> > something like this:
> >
> > fdisk /dev/sda
> >
> > Press the "m" key then enter, to see fdisk's menu; press the
> > hotkey to
> > delete a partition, choose the right partition to remove,
> > then write the
> > partition table to disk and quit out of the fdisk program.
> >
> > Now, the details about what was your Fedora partition is
> > lost, so an
> > install should believe that part of the disc is unused and
> > available.
> >
> > --
> > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
> >
> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is
> > ignored.  I
> > read messages from the public lists.
> >
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how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? [SOLVED]

[William Mattison]

The replies I received were correct.  It was unnecessary to delete the previous install.  I merely had to install over the old installation.  Thank-you, both of you that replied.

Bill.

--- On Wed, 3/13/13, William Mattison  wrote:
> From: William Mattison 
> Subject: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot?
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 11:04 AM
> I have a dual boot desktop with
> Fedora 18 (from the Live Media) and Windows 7 home.  I
> need to delete the Fedora 18 install.  The installation
> guide (section 20.2.1) discusses how to do this if the
> windows install is Windows 2000, Windows Server 2000,
> Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows
> Server 2008, but not Windows 7.
>
> I'm needing to delete the Fedora 18 install so I can
> re-install it, this time using a full installation dvd
> rather than the minimal installation that the Live Media
> provides.
>
> Thank-you in advance for your help.
> Bill.
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