removing windows???

Tuul · 01-16-2005, 02:48 PM

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

dns21 · 01-16-2005, 02:53 PM

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.

Tuul · 01-16-2005, 03:08 PM

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?

dns21 · 01-16-2005, 03:11 PM

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

Padma · 01-16-2005, 03:21 PM

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?

sonis · 01-16-2005, 04:10 PM

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.