Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux partition, it strikes me that G

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Peter Smout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:51, John Oliver wrote: > > On 09/03/14 17:34, Peter Smout wrote: > >> For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? >> the one thing I need to make new installs easy!! >> > I think > http://askubuntu.com/questions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread John Oliver
On 09/03/14 17:34, Peter Smout wrote: For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? the one thing I need to make new installs easy!! I think http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages would be useful to read for that, but I would also do a s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Peter Smout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:14, Jim Price wrote: > On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: >> Hi >> >> The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all >> this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to >> Xubuntu. If I use > GParted >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Jim Price
On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot > nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted > to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux partition, it strikes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Peter Smout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this > dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If > I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7,

[ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-09 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the Linux partition, it strikes me that Grub might get into a mess. I'm sure