[ale] Removing Windows from a dual boot machine

[Joseph A Knapka]

"Jordi S. Bunster" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:30:11PM -0400, Eric T. Brubakken wrote:
> 
> > It's been a long time since I created my dual boot machine.  Now I want to remove the windows portion and reclaim that disk space for Linux.
> 
> Yes! Windependence!
> 
> > Is doing this as simple as removing lilo (lilo -u) and then running cfdisk to delete the Win95 partition and then create a new Linux partition?
> 
> I don't see why you should remove LILO. Just remove Windows' LILO entry
> in /etc/lilo.conf, and run lilo. Then take away that partition, create a
> Linux one instead, and reboot[1]. Then mkfs the new one, and you're set.

If LILO is installed on the /dev/hda3 partition, you probably want to
mark
/dev/hda3 as "active" in fdisk. That will cause the MBR to load LILO
from /dev/hda3 and give you your Linux system. If /dev/hda1 remains
active, you'll get some nasty message from the BIOS about there being
no system disk available.

Or, you could install LILO or GRUB into the MBR.

Cheers,

-- Joe
 "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
 sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and the
 leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - J. Knapka

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