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Old 10-15-2006, 11:04 AM   #1
natecenterdave
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Doing away with Windows and dual boot


I've finally decieded to turn my dual boot (win xp and slack 11) to a single boot linux box. I'm posting this to ask for the best way to handle this. When I first built the computer it was just a win xp box, but since I added a second hard drive that has been dedicated to Linux. Lilo is set to the MBR on hda (windows drive). I've had to spend some time fixing drivers in Linux for things like my wireless network usb card so I'd rather not just start from scratch.
I assume I should boot to Linux edit the fstab and remove my windows partition and then cfdisk the windows drive. Next would be to format (mkfs) and add to the fstab the new partitions.

What should be done next? or is there a better way to do this?
How do I remove Lilo and have it boot straight to Linux?
 
Old 10-15-2006, 11:12 AM   #2
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ok, well firstly don't remove lilo. you'll always have lilo or grub to enable you to configure your boots correctly. as such it's actually really simple to do what you want.. just stop using windows. edit lilo.conf remove windows, make sure linux is the default. after that if there really is a 100% split between the drives then just remove the windows paritions howver you wish and do what you want with the space you have.
 
  


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