Removing Windows from Dual Boot

["Weiner, Michael" <weinerm@xxxxxxx>]

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@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@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

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