harke wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2008 20:11, Hai Yi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My home PC has dual OS, one is Ubuntu 7.10, the other is Windows XP. >> However, my windows has stopped working for quite a while. >> >> So I figure, I will remove the windows partition and use it as my >> Ubuntu's secondary disk, and install a svn server as a repository for >> my code/document. >> >> I'd like to know if there is an easy and feasible way to accomplish my >> goal, without affecting my current Ubuntu installation? >> >> Any tool/utility? >> >> >> Maybe it's just easier to install a brand-new 8.0.4... :-) >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Hai > Its not really difficult but you have to be very careful > because a mistake could be very bad. > First you should take windows out of the boot menu. > If you are using grub you can do this by editting the > menu.lst file, usually located in /boot/grub > BUT, be very careful. If you screw up menu.lst, you may not be > able to boot at all. > Then you can use fdisk to change the second drive into > a linux partition. Again, you need to be very careful. If you > fdisk the wrong drive, you are hosed. > After fdisk, you need to run mkfs to put a file system > on he drive. > Last you need to mount it. You may want to create a new > directory under / as a place to mount it. Also you > should update fstab so it mounts automatically whenever > you boot your machine. > > If any of this sounds esoteric, I would recommend > bringing your machine to an install fest which usually > happens about once a month. It can probably be done > in a half hour or so. > > Richard Harke > I'll second most of what Richard said but suggest you might want to use gparted (Parition Editor under the System->Administration menu) over fdisk if you're unfamiliar with fdisk, the graphical tool is quite easy to use.
Your windows entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst looks something like the following and is likely the last entry in the file: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 To figure out the UUID of your partition in case it's not already in the fstab: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ And yes we can easily help you do this at an installfest too. Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
