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by BB » Sat, 10 May 2003 01:03:59

I have a dual booting Redhat/Windows 2000 system. I am ready to ditch Win2k.

How do I do it?

My guess,

1) Make a linux boot disk just in case.
2) Remove Win2k from LILO (how?)
3) Use fdisk to delete the win2k partition
4) Use mkfs to build a new ext2 file system (how?)
5) Mount it in /etc/fstab

Is this correct?

by **John** » Sat, 10 May 2003 02:54:15

> I have a dual booting Redhat/Windows 2000 system. I am ready to ditch Win2k.

> How do I do it?

> My guess,

> 1) Make a linux boot disk just in case.
> 2) Remove Win2k from LILO (how?)
> 3) Use fdisk to delete the win2k partition
> 4) Use mkfs to build a new ext2 file system (how?)
> 5) Mount it in /etc/fstab

> Is this correct?

Correct.

(2) As root. Edit '/etc/lilo.conf'. Remove the win2k entry (probably
DOS). Make sure the default boot points to Linux.
Run 'lilo -v'

(4) 'man mk2fs'. Read these man pages. Its pretty simple.
I would recommend EXT3. Make sure you have EXT3 in your kernel.
'mke2fs -t ext3 -j /dev/<partition>'

Read the Filesystems HOWTO. Find it on tldp.org

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by **Joe** » Sat, 10 May 2003 03:59:02

>> I have a dual booting Redhat/Windows 2000 system. I am ready to ditch Win2k.
>> How do I do it?
>> My guess,
>> 1) Make a linux boot disk just in case.
>> 2) Remove Win2k from LILO (how?)
>> 3) Use fdisk to delete the win2k partition
>> 4) Use mkfs to build a new ext2 file system (how?)
>> 5) Mount it in /etc/fstab
>> Is this correct?

>Correct.

>(2) As root. Edit '/etc/lilo.conf'. Remove the win2k entry (probably
>DOS). Make sure the default boot points to Linux.
>Run 'lilo -v'

>(4) 'man mk2fs'. Read these man pages. Its pretty simple.
>I would recommend EXT3. Make sure you have EXT3 in your kernel.
>'mke2fs -t ext3 -j /dev/<partition>'

3) If you actually delete the partition you then need to create a new
one in the same place, also using fdisk. Or keep the partition, and use
fdisk to change the partition type from Win2K (FAT32 or NTFS/HPFS) to
Linux.
--
Joe

by **Timothy Murph** » Sat, 10 May 2003 07:20:00

> I have a dual booting Redhat/Windows 2000 system. I am ready to ditch
> Win2k.
> 1) Make a linux boot disk just in case.
> 2) Remove Win2k from LILO (how?)
> 3) Use fdisk to delete the win2k partition
> 4) Use mkfs to build a new ext2 file system (how?)
> 5) Mount it in /etc/fstab

Seems OK to me.

My only contribution is to suggest you should keep a Windows partition
unless you are short of space.
There are several occasions when Windows is necessary,
eg configuring PCI cards or upgrading the firmware in PCMCIA cards
(or on the motherboard).

You can be a Linux believer without being a fanatic ...

--
Timothy Murphy

tel: +353-86-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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