-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: > From Windows: > > fdisk /mbr > > > DaZZa wrote: >> Greetings and salutations. >> >> I've a box which currently dual boots. The space used by the Linux >> partition I now urgently need for other purposes, so I want to delete >> it and expand the 'doze partition to suit. >> >> Trouble is, I'm unsure how to remove GRUB and just return the box to >> booting 'doze. >> >> If it were a lilo install I'd know where I stood - but I don't have >> enough experience using GRUB to know if just deleting the Linux >> partition will leave the box still bootable. >> >> Any clues? >> >> DaZZa >
I was going to say something like: sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ;) - -- James BTW - DON'T run that command unless you know what it does...curiosity will kill the /usr/bin/cat (and everything else on /dev/hda too). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEvyc+wBHpdJO7b9ERAtcAAJ9h9DshVdOeMWX2Fd5mQIg8lB/4qgCdG7Vu yBzvnai+2KFYYp6Rs/3ajQU= =FaEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
