On 2006/11/17 02:32 (GMT-0800) Martin Mielke apparently typed:
> before completely trashing out my hard disk I'd like to expose what I'm
> planning to do hoping to get some expert advice from you...
> The first operating system I installed on the PC was Solaris 10 and then SuSE
> 10.
> So it's Solaris's GRUB which first shows up... SuSE 10 is pre-selected to it
> jumps to SuSE's GRUB (maybe there are better ways to do it but that's how the
> installation process did it) and, as expected (and desired), SuSE 10 boots up.
> Now I see myself wasting around 125 GB with the Solaris installation, which I
> don't use at home (enough of that at work). So I decided to get rid of it and
> recover some space.
> By now I can come up with 3 approaches (common option for all: backup of
> sensitive data before proceeding):
> * Option 1:
> - use cfdisk to change the boot-partition
> after that, I'd make a new filesystem on the old Solaris partition
> * Option 2:
>
> - use cfdisk to free up the Solaris partition and create a new Linux one
> - use parted to move the SuSE partition to the newly created
> * Option 3:
> - reinstall the whole system from scratch and use the whole hard disk this
> time
> I'd like to avoid the 3rd option as there are a lot of utils already
> installed and a lot of customization should be done.
> So... what way would you advice me to achieve this task without shooting
> myself in the foot? :-)
Seems like you're trying to make the conversion more difficult than it
needs to be. Option 4:
a-grub-install /dev/hda
b-cfdisk to change the type(s) on the solaris partition(s)
c-mkfs the solaris partition(s) to ext3 or whatever you prefer
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