-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:14, Jim Price wrote: > 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. > > For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? the one thing I need to make new installs easy!!
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