kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > My son has an athalon-64 box running FC3 and Windoze in a dual boot setup. > He has finally had it with windows and wants to rid his machine of it > entirely. > > The final straw was a video problem that after running windows caused the > machine to show barely readable graphics with a big blob as a cursor and > lines throughtout the display until he logged into windows, then the > display was fine until he re-booted. after 2 successive reboots into Linux > the issue went away -wierd!! > > Anyhow, can anyone explain to me how to go about deleting the disk space > used for windows and reclaiming that space for Linux? I would just use fdisk to change the partition type to linux, and then create a new file-system on it with mkfs.ext3 . However, although I use Linux 99% of the time, I always keep a Windows partition on my machines, as it is almost certain to come in handy sooner or later. Eg some cards can only be updated under Windows. Also, if there is a problem under Linux, it is often useful to know if it is hardware or software, and a Windows system helps with that. I do usually shrink Windows partitions, though. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
