Uninstall

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Fri Dec 5 13:02:49 UTC 2008


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.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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  check the price of the beer"




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