[ale] Removing Windows from a dual boot machine

Eric T. Brubakken eric_t_brubakken at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 14 22:30:11 EDT 2002



It's been a long time since I created my dual boot machine.  Now I 
want to remove the windows portion and reclaim that disk space for Linux.
 
Is doing this as simple as removing lilo (lilo -u) and then running cfdisk 
to delete the Win95 partition and then create a new Linux 
partition?
 
 
fdisk -l reports:
 
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2434 cylindersUnits = cylinders 
of 16065 * 512 bytes
 
   Device Boot    
Start       End    
Blocks   Id  System/dev/hda1   
*         
1      1275  10241406    c  
Win95 FAT32 
(LBA)/dev/hda2          
1276      1341    530145   
82  Linux 
swap/dev/hda3          
1342      2434   8779522+  83  
Linux
 
 
Thanks
Eric  





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