[opensuse] HowTo get rid of SuSe 10.2 a residual burden on my hard drive
When I decided to upgrade SuSE I first install 10.2 and realized it took a lot of time to fix the many deficiencies and get it to a point where I could start working on my project. So I installed 10.3 and at installation time I chose "New Installation" believing this would wipe out the hard drive so erasing 10.2 and store and install 10.3. In short, I wished to get rid of 10.2. But apparently I did not achieve my goal. In fact 10.3 is now up & running but if I click on the SuSE menu item "leave -> Start Operating System" I get the following 3 choices: 1) Start 'openSuSE 10.3- 2.6.22.12-0.1' (current) 2) Start 'Failsafe -- openSuSE 10.3 ....' 3) Start 'openSuSE 10.2 - 2.6-18.8-0.7 (/dev/sda2)' It looks like 10.2 is still there and occupies a portion of my hard drive. How can I get rid of 10.2 WITHOUT REINSTALLING 10.3 or damaging anything already working on 10.3? I'd like all the available disk space to be devoted to 10.3. Thank you in advance for your assistance and help Regards, Maura Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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When I decided to upgrade SuSE I first install 10.2 and realized it took a lot of time to fix the many deficiencies and get it to a point where I could start working on my project.
Your assessment of openSUSE 10.2 is somewhat discouraging. One would wonder why you even considered it, or was it just a *poor* choice of words?
So I installed 10.3 and at installation time I chose "New Installation" believing this would wipe out the hard drive so erasing 10.2 and store and install 10.3. In short, I wished to get rid of 10.2. But apparently I did not achieve my goal. In fact 10.3 is now up & running but if I click on the SuSE menu item "leave -> Start Operating System" I get the following 3 choices:
1) Start 'openSuSE 10.3- 2.6.22.12-0.1' (current) 2) Start 'Failsafe -- openSuSE 10.3 ....' 3) Start 'openSuSE 10.2 - 2.6-18.8-0.7 (/dev/sda2)'
It looks like 10.2 is still there and occupies a portion of my hard drive.
yes it does.
How can I get rid of 10.2 WITHOUT REINSTALLING 10.3 or damaging anything already working on 10.3?
open yast disk and reformat the partition containing openSUSE 10.2, sda2 then edit /boot/grub/grub.ment and delete the lines concerning 10.2
I'd like all the available disk space to be devoted to 10.3.
this *will* free the space occupied by 10.2, but will not devote it to any particular purpose. It will make the *partition* sda2 available for other use
Thank you in advance for your assistance and help
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Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
So I installed 10.3 and at installation time I chose "New Installation" believing this would wipe out the hard drive so erasing 10.2 and store and install 10.3. In short, I wished to get rid of 10.2. But apparently I did not achieve my goal.
if you installed by default, it's a good thing if openSUSE don't delete any pré-installed partition...
1) Start 'openSuSE 10.3- 2.6.22.12-0.1' (current) 2) Start 'Failsafe -- openSuSE 10.3 ....' 3) Start 'openSuSE 10.2 - 2.6-18.8-0.7 (/dev/sda2)'
you have the same at boot time on the screen :-) this mean 10.2 was on /dev/sda2 * to get rid of the entry *in the menu*, go to yast and look for the entry about boot manager and delete the 10.2 entry (or go to /boot/grub/men.lst and remove the 10.2 entry by hand - with vi) * go always in yast to the disk partitionner et remove /dev/sda2. this will wipe out 10.2. after that you can always attribute the free disk space to whatever thing you want, for example mount it in /media/data and stire there your important data. You can even link this folder to your home... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/10/27/127022-Claire-Dodin-une-Toulousai... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi Maura, jdd wrote:
this mean 10.2 was on /dev/sda2
* to get rid of the entry *in the menu*, go to yast and look for the entry about boot manager and delete the 10.2 entry (or go to /boot/grub/men.lst and remove the 10.2 entry by hand - with vi)
imho, the file is named "menu.lst", so it should be /boot/grub/menu.lst
* go always in yast to the disk partitionner et remove /dev/sda2.
this will wipe out 10.2.
after that you can always attribute the free disk space to whatever thing you want, for example mount it in /media/data and stire there your important data. You can even link this folder to your home...
Or in case you do not want to use it as "simple additional space", you need to decide what exactly you might want to do with the new free space. Depending on your decision, you can use is for whatever you will imagine. Decide and come back to the list. We'll be glad to help you along. Kind regards Eberrhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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