mclark
September 11th, 2009, 08:22 PM
Greetings,
I am completely new to Ubuntu 9.04 (and all things *nix - but I want to learn)*.
I have an old Win2000 box with a small (20Gb) drive. I created an install CD from the Ubuntu website and created a dual-boot machine (which works). The Ubuntu installation partitioned the drive into Windows and Ubuntu partitions (unfortunately I choose a really small partition size for Ubuntu - 4Gb). With the limited playing I've done with Ubuntu, I want to remove Win2K and it's partition and just use the machine as a linux box.
Since there is no data I need on this machine I would like to:
remove Win2k
recover the 16Gb partition Win2k was using and make the entire drive available to Ubuntu
I thought about uninstalling Ubuntu and removing it's partition and then reinstalling, telling it to use the Windows partition.
Or try to repartition the drive into a single partition which would, by default, remove Ubuntu, then uninstall Windows and install Ubuntu.
Before I tried any of this I thought it would be prudent to ask the experts. Any suggestions?
* I'm a Windows / OS-neutral programmer by trade so I have general computer OS knowledge but virtually no Unix/Linux/Mac experience. I would really like to turn my old Win2k box into a Linux learning tool and maybe become Windows free in the future.
I am completely new to Ubuntu 9.04 (and all things *nix - but I want to learn)*.
I have an old Win2000 box with a small (20Gb) drive. I created an install CD from the Ubuntu website and created a dual-boot machine (which works). The Ubuntu installation partitioned the drive into Windows and Ubuntu partitions (unfortunately I choose a really small partition size for Ubuntu - 4Gb). With the limited playing I've done with Ubuntu, I want to remove Win2K and it's partition and just use the machine as a linux box.
Since there is no data I need on this machine I would like to:
remove Win2k
recover the 16Gb partition Win2k was using and make the entire drive available to Ubuntu
I thought about uninstalling Ubuntu and removing it's partition and then reinstalling, telling it to use the Windows partition.
Or try to repartition the drive into a single partition which would, by default, remove Ubuntu, then uninstall Windows and install Ubuntu.
Before I tried any of this I thought it would be prudent to ask the experts. Any suggestions?
* I'm a Windows / OS-neutral programmer by trade so I have general computer OS knowledge but virtually no Unix/Linux/Mac experience. I would really like to turn my old Win2k box into a Linux learning tool and maybe become Windows free in the future.