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format vista with linux

Asked by con g

I have Ubuntu 7.10 and vista on my laptop as a dual boot setup, i want to get rid of vista and keep Ubuntu only as my os
What is the best way to do this?

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

You can do all using live Ubuntu 7.10 install cd.

You have two choices:

1) Simply reinstall Ubuntu, answer "use entire disk" at install partition step

or

2) Boot from live cd and when you see the desktop press ALT+F2 and type gparted

- Delete or format to ext3 the existent NTFS partition, so you will have 2 ext3 partitions.
- If you want a single big ext3 partition using gparted you can first delete the NTFS partition then redim the size of existent ext3 partition to a bigger size.

Then starting with the installed Ubuntu you have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst and delete the Windows section

Hope this helps

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con g (con-girdis) said : 		#2

Thank you, one more question, how do i edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst and delete the Windows section

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#3

just type sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst in terminal.

or if you use kubuntu use kate instead of gedit.

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con g (con-girdis) said : 		#4

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.