Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-05 Thread Bob McGowan
If your plan is to completely eliminate Debian and re-install with Ubuntu, then just boot from the Ubuntu install disk. When asked what to do with hard disk partitioning, choose to use the whole disk, or manually create new partitions. Do *not* choose anything suggestion preserving existing d

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Baz wrote: What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? You'll lose your menu at least. Also, you will lose the ability for it to read your file system(s). I think it would be best to re-install GRUB after

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/4/06, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division I think that if you install Ubuntu and install GRUB in the s

Re: Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:31:34PM -0800, Baz wrote: > What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? if GRUB is on the MBR, then you'll probably get a GRUB prompt and that's all, unless you have menu.lst stored somewhere else. you'll have to manually instruct GRUB how to boot -- I

Deleting Debian - Enough's enough

2006-12-04 Thread Baz
What happens to GRUB if I simply delete the Debian partition? And, if I'm looking to install Ubuntu, will it simply overwrite Debian? -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division