[ale] From Dual Boot to Linux only

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I've had really good luck with qtparted / NTFS.  I've got a dual-boot 
WinXP & FC1 IBM Thinkpad that came stock with XP Pro.  After some 
finaggling (is that a word), I was able to partition the drive down to 
get FC1 installed on it, and the XP Pro install is still fine.  At any 
rate, I would be that you could just use qtparted to delete the ntfs 
partition and grow the ext3 parition (or whatever fs you're using). 
Since you'd be getting rid of ntfs (to install *nix), any ntfs boo-boo's 
shouldn't be a big problem anyway (as long as you have the data backed 
up, which you would if you were going to format anyway)
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Nathan J. Underwood
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Preston Boyington wrote:
> Josh Freeman wrote:
> 
>>First, you will need to fdisk (possibly) and format(definitely) the
>>partition 
>>
>>fdisk /dev/hdb
>>
>>fdisk isn't exceptionally user friendly, but follow the menus and you
>>should be okay. 
> 
> 
> What about using Knoppix and QTParted do this also?  I haven't played with using it on NTFS (yet), but would think it more user friendly than fdisk.
> 
> start Knoppix (I use "desktop=fluxbox" at the prompt to use less resources)
> open a terminal
> type "su"
> type "qtparted"
> 
> nice graphical interface that is less intimidating than fdisk in a terminal.
> 
> Preston
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