uninstall linux

I am a newby and managed to install 8.10 on the same drive as 8.02
now 8.02 is out of room. need uninstall 8.10 and restore the disk to 8.02

if you installed 8.10 on the same partition that 8.04 was on then you've effectively upgraded to 8.10. no more 8.04. if you want to put 8.04 back then save whatever data you need from your drive, then format the partition and reinstall 8.04.

nhasian wrote:
> Your question #60163 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/60163
>
> Status: Open => Answered
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> nhasian proposed the following answer:
> if you installed 8.10 on the same partition that 8.04 was on then you've
> effectively upgraded to 8.10. no more 8.04. if you want to put 8.04
> back then save whatever data you need from your drive, then format the
> partition and reinstall 8.04.
>
>
More Info
machine has 2 hard drives ,1 with vista, 1 with both 8.04 and 8.10
when 8.10 installed shrunk 8.04's partition and then installed itself in
the new partition, this left 8.04's disk space severly restricted.
If partitions can be adjusted this might be workable for the time being

okay now i have a better understanding of your system. You cannot resize a partition while your using it, so boot off the Ubuntu LiveCD (8.04 or 8.10 it doesnt matter)

then go to System->Administration->Partition Editor

you should be able to select your 2nd hard disk from the drop down menu and it will show several partitions, one for ubuntu 8.04, one for 8.10 and maybe one or two swap partitions depending on how you set it up.

Now you have two choices, you can either delete one of the ubuntu partitions and expand the remaining ubuntu partition to fill the drive, or you can just resize them both if you'd like to keep both versions of ubuntu. Please note that both versions of ubuntu can share the same swap partition so you dont need two of those.