removing windows???
 

Hello,

I have installed SuSE 9.1 on an old machine, got connected to the internet after a few days of trial and error and help from others. now that I can connect to the internet I want to download program languages to "program", but I want that extra 3.31 GB that windows has taken up. how do I get rid of that without getting rid of linux? i also want to use that space for linux. any way to do that without totaly wiping the drive and reinstalling SuSE??

thanks for you help

First off, congrats.

You can repartition that drive space and format it using cfdisk. If you have never partitioned drives before, google around. It is fairly simple.

well i want to use SuSE to do it, if it is able to. i want the maximum out of it... i thought i saw a "partitioner" somewhere when looking around trying to fix my internet problem (thats also fixed now). so... anyone?

I am not familiar with Suse but if it does have a frontend it most likely uses cfdisk which is quite simple. Seriously.

I don't know which tool Suse uses, but I would expect it to be Parted/QTparted. This is a "Partition Magic" look-alike written explicitly for Linux.

Although I *think* Suse might use Yast as a tool frontend?

if you windows partion is Fat 32 format, you can definitely use it in linux, just mount it. if it is NTFS, you have to find a way to transfer NTFS format into Fat32 or you can use some third party software like "captive NTFS" etc. the linux kernel 2.6 do partily suport writting a ntfs partions, but it is dangerous.