Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I really would hate to buy a new machine just to match the customer configuration.
Any help is appreciated.
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:57, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I really would hate to buy a new machine just to match the customer configuration.
I believe that the latest incarnation of PM can see linux partitions, but I wouldn't choose to use it. I'd boot from a live CD and run gparted or qparted to handle the partitions.
OTOH, it depends on what you actually want from that box. Would you prefer to keep Fedora for yourself and at the same time have Ubuntu so that you can work with them? There are options there - another drive and edit grub to handle both, or a VM, which is a little trickier to set up, but saves you needing to reboot to look at Ubuntu.
Anne
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:57:27 -0700, Mike Dwiggins mike@azdwiggins.com wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
Just install over it. Ubuntu should be providing some way to install in existing partitions.
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 02:57 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I don't recall the Ubuntu installation being difficult to repartition the drive. Just have Ubuntu take over the entire drive for itself. Alternatively, pre-installation, you could boot from a CD and wipe out the partitions on the drive (e.g. use the fdisk program, and write an empty partition table - read its menus).
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:57, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I really would hate to buy a new machine just to match the customer configuration.
I believe that the latest incarnation of PM can see linux partitions, but I wouldn't choose to use it. I'd boot from a live CD and run gparted or qparted to handle the partitions.
Back in the days of RH6.0 I used PM to create open space and ext2 partitions on my W95 box to install RH on. I would be surprised if it's lost the capability to recognize linux partitions since then.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:57, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I really would hate to buy a new machine just to match the customer configuration.
I believe that the latest incarnation of PM can see linux partitions, but I wouldn't choose to use it. I'd boot from a live CD and run gparted or qparted to handle the partitions.
Back in the days of RH6.0 I used PM to create open space and ext2 partitions on my W95 box to install RH on. I would be surprised if it's lost the capability to recognize linux partitions since then.
Damn, my mail client just opened the list to July's messages and I didn't look at the date. Didn't really mean to reply to a 6 month old message. Apologies.
On Friday 05 December 2008 13:02:49 Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:57, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
Is there a way to just flat uninstall FC 8. I need to make a workstation match a customer configuration.
They use Ubuntu, which has the worst Installation program I have ever seen. Thus I need to uninstall FC 8 to create open space. Partion Magic from the XP partition craps the basket and claims it cannot even find the drive letter.
I really would hate to buy a new machine just to match the customer configuration.
I believe that the latest incarnation of PM can see linux partitions, but I wouldn't choose to use it. I'd boot from a live CD and run gparted or qparted to handle the partitions.
Back in the days of RH6.0 I used PM to create open space and ext2 partitions on my W95 box to install RH on. I would be surprised if it's lost the capability to recognize linux partitions since then.
Damn, my mail client just opened the list to July's messages and I didn't look at the date. Didn't really mean to reply to a 6 month old message. Apologies.
NP :-) I don't dispute that PM has had the ability for a long time. It had it in PM6, I know for sure. However, when I used it I did have some problems. Since then I have stuck to my resolve to use linux tools to create linux partitions and windows tools to create windows partitions. I'm probably being paranoid, but it just feels safer that way :-)
Anne
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