On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote:
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.
I do a fresh install every six months as a matter of course. It keeps the installation fresh and fast, and I get rid of stuff that's accumulated and not really required. I have lists of installation procedures for hardware drivers etc. and a few scripts I wrote. The entire install takes about an hour. I always have two versions on two separate hard-drives - the stable, and the testing which I use until it breaks. I can grab stuff from the other version whenever things get difficult. I've been working like this for two years now and it is my preferred method. I have a third, big hard drive for backups and general archiving, and I have all current stuff backed up on U1.
Regards, Barry. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
