On 9 March 2014 17:04, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> 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. > > Any advice most welcome.
Well, given the timing, I'd suggest that you wait until next month, when there will be a new fresh LTS release, and use that to wipe the machine and do a full clean install. But, TBH, although I do have one or 2 machines with only a single OS on, most of my (many, many) PCs dual-boot with copies of Windows that sometimes don't get booted for years on end, and if there's no Windows on them, with MS-DOS (or DR-DOS, as that's FOSS, and I happen to know it well, unlike FreeDOS). It's handy to keep DOS or Windows around for emergencies and for things like BIOS-reflashing. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
