Removing Windows from Dual Boot
Germán A. Racca
german.racca at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 17:40:34 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:31 -0400, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> I am sure this has been asked a number of times, and I am not finding
> anything relevant using a google search, so I thought I would post my
> query here. I have a user that owns a Dell Inspiron laptop, that has a
> 60G drive split in two, with Windows XP on the first partition, and
> Fedora Core 7 on the second. Now, he decides he would like me to
> remove Windows XP and make it a 100% linux laptop. Great, I think to
> myself, a convert! Until I look at the way it is configured:
>
>
>
> [root at leex ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
>
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
>
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>
> /dev/sda1 * 1 3470 27872743+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> /dev/sda2 3471 3483 104422+ 83 Linux
>
> /dev/sda3 3484 7296 30627922+ 8e Linux LVM
>
>
>
> [root at leex ~]# df
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>
> 28599044 22148476 4974372 82% /
>
> /dev/sda2 101105 18631 77253 20% /boot
>
> tmpfs 257416 0 257416 0% /dev/shm
>
>
>
> And from /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> #boot=/dev/sda
>
> default=0
>
> timeout=5
>
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> hiddenmenu
>
> title Fedora Core 7
>
> root (hd0,1)
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>
> initrd /initrd-2.6.23.17-88.fc7.img
>
> title Microsoft Windows XP
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>
> chainloader +1
>
>
>
> I find many tutorials showing how to uninstall Linux from the second
> partition and return the machine back to the original XP
> configuration, but none really documenting the process going the other
> way (eg keeping linux and dumping xp). And I am not even sure it can
> be done.
>
>
>
> Has anyone done this? If so, is there some documentation that I can
> sneak a peak at to help push me in the right direction?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michael
Michael:
I have not answer to your question, but only a suggestion: as FC7 is so
old and unsupported, and you also want to uninstall windows xp, wouldn't
you like to fresh install F13, or in brief F14 ?
Regards,
Germán.
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Germán A. Racca
National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil
http://skytux.fedorapeople.org
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