On 12/7/06, Yawar Amin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/7/06, Darklord (:= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suppose Someone Want to Replace his Windows xp with Ubuntu 6.06..... . > > > > Means no other os just Just a Ubuntu Box now what to do ? > > > > I wrote a tutorial > > > > http://www.somewhereinblog.net/thedarklordblog/post/20704 > > > > but it's for Duelboot . > > > > but if someone wont to keep just Ubuntu and kick xp's ass what to do ? > > Then just tell Ubuntu, during installation, to reformat and use up the > partitions which are currently being used by Windows. On an existing > dual-boot system, use Parted or something similar to reformat the > Windows partitions into ext3/whatever. Then add the partitions to the > fstab. Or if you want to keep the option of booting Windows sometime > in the future, just leave the Windows partitions as they are and add > them to the fstab. Ubuntu should be able to do read/write even to NTFS > partitions nowadays. > > The next step is to remove the Windows option from the Grub boot table > and set the boot timeout to like 1 or 2 seconds. This way you don't > have to choose Linux every time you start up, and you don't have to > wait 10 seconds before Grub decides to start Linux for you. > > > # and one more thing is that possible to install windows again > > without remove Ubuntu / boot loader ? > > Yes and no -- it's possible to install Windows onto any free > partitions you might have -- but Windows XP will overwrite the boot > sector with ntldr, its Grub equivalent, forcing you to boot up with a > live CD or sth like that and reinstall Grub into the boot sector with > the grub-install command. As you know, it's always better to install > Windows first and Linux second, third, fourth, ... etc. on a > dual/multi boot machine.
Or they can use Loadlin [0] from Windows. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin
