[Ilugc] delete windows

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 27/06/05, km <km at mrna.tn.nic.in> wrote:
> i have dual boot config with windowsXP and fedora core 2; with grub as boot loader. i need to remove the windows and want to install any other linux distro in that harddisk space. have googled but in vain. most of the results describe how to uninstall linux from a dual boot with windows.

Run fdisk to figure out your Windows partition (fdisk -l /dev/hda),
and just reformat it (mke2fs -j /dev/hdaN, where N is the Windows
partition).

Needless to say, you will lose all data, take backups etc.

Binand