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@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 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. -- Germán A. Racca National Institute for Space Research (INPE) São José dos Campos - SP - Brasil http://skytux.fedorapeople.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
