Uninstall

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Fri Dec 5 12:54:32 UTC 2008


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.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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