Re: [PLUG] reuse old os partition

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Stephen Gran wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:26:56PM -0500, Art Alexion said:
>  
>
> > After a couple of months of testing Debian-based Ubuntu, I am ready to
> > abandon my old red hat OS partition.  (the red hat home directories
> > have their own partitions)
> >
> > What is the best way to do that? cfdisk or just a reformat?  
> >    
>
> rm -rf?  It's up to you - both Debian and RedHat use the same
> filesystems, so you could either reformat, or just blow away.
>  
deleting them should be fine.  I just wasn't sure.


>  
>
> > what changes to grub?  Just delete the red hat entry from the
> > menu.list, or do I have to get rid of the boot images of the red hat
> > system somehow?
> >    
>
> Just deleting the entries from menu.lst should do it, AIUI.
>  
OK.  I wasn't sure where the boot images were stored (/ or /boot, or 
somewhere outside the file system, hence the repartitioning/reformatting 
question.)

Thanks for your help.


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