Thank-you, Tim. I plan to attempt the install today. - Bill. --- On Thu, 3/14/13, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> From: Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> > Subject: Re: how to remove F18 from F18-Win7 dual boot? > To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 6:52 AM > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 08:04 -0700, > William Mattison wrote: > > I have a dual boot desktop with Fedora 18 (from the > Live Media) and > > Windows 7 home. I need to delete the Fedora 18 > install. > > If you find that you're unable to install over the top, as > the other > reply suggests, and as some posts on this list seem to > suggest that some > people have had trouble doing, you can: > > Boot from some other Linux disc (including the install > disc), make your > way into a command line, run the "fdisk" program and delete > the Linux > partition(s). > > If, for example, your Linux partition was on /dev/sda2, then > it'd be > something like this: > > fdisk /dev/sda > > Press the "m" key then enter, to see fdisk's menu; press the > hotkey to > delete a partition, choose the right partition to remove, > then write the > partition table to disk and quit out of the fdisk program. > > Now, the details about what was your Fedora partition is > lost, so an > install should believe that part of the disc is unused and > available. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is > ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
