At 13/09/2002 11:09, Petri Somerkari wrote:
I have two operating systems on my computer... WinXP and SUSE 8.0 pro. On HDD I have 2 NTFS partitions that I's like to get rid of. One contains the WinXP and other has random files that are not important, so practiclally formatting that won't be any lost.
Q1: How do I get rid of WinXP partition, so that I am still capable of booting to suse with Lilo.
Assuming you want to be Windows-free (and hell, who doesn't ??), the easiest way would be to boot into non-GUI mode and run fdisk on that drive, CAREFULLY deleting the relevant partitions.... Do a "mount" first and take note of what's mounted and do *not* delete these !!
Q2; How do I format NTFS partitions.
You don't... Once you've nuked the partitions, you use fdisk to create Linux (type 83) partitions to your liking... Then use mkext2 to generate the filesystem on them.... Modift fstab to mount them as appropriate. Jon