Jim Roby wrote:
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All attempts to right the Windows distro failed and I then decided to
give the entire disk to Ubuantu.Now we have a boot menu that boots
Ubuantu but still points to the non existant Win2K...it just yields an
error message and you can go back to boot the working OS. I would like
to wipe the menu which now doesn't look pro,but reading I see there is
no uninstall of Grub...man pages say to over write it.
Is this safe? And how should I go about it? fdisk /mbr or something
like that? Should I make a boot floppy first? machine has a floppy drive.
A boot loader (like Grub) is needed (just like Windows), but in Linux
it's more visible. If you don't need the extra space, then I would just
remove the Win2K option from grub. Open a terminal and:
sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Scroll down to the bottom and comment out the Win2K line by putting a #
before the 4 lines associated with Win2K. It may look something like this:
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
You can hide the grub menu on boot. There may be a hiddenmenu line that
is commented out, just remove the # from before it.
As a final note, you may want to consider installing the latest version
of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron. So far it appears to be the great distro they've
created.
Good luck.
Michael
David Kiwerski wrote:
Seems so, but not very active presently.
Al Plant wrote:
Is the Luau list still alive?
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