On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot
> nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use
GParted
> to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux
partition, it strikes me that Grub might get into a mess. I'm sure I could
> probably modify the Grub setup but is this approach more trouble than
it's
worth? Would I be better off just starting from scratch with a fresh Xubuntu
> install? The reason I'd like to avoid this if practical is that it
always
> takes me a couple of days to get everything just the way I like it
whenever
> I do a full reinstall.
Any advice most welcome.
What I do in such circumstances is to make sure I have an Ubuntu server
CD of the appropriate version so that if things don't boot properly
after removing partitions, I can just use it to re-install GRUB. That's
about the only thing which usually goes wrong. In case anything else
goes wrong, make backups and generate a package list, so at least if you
do have to re-install you can just restore your home directory and
re-install all your software easily.
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