[Xastir] Somewhat OT: Updating Linux

[Jim]

I don't believe you will accomplish anything by going back to Windows first.
When you do the RH9 install, and don't choose upgrade, all of the partitions
that you choose will be reformatted to make room for the new RH9 partitions.
You won't choose the drive that has your windows OS on it and you will
choose the drive with all of the RH8 partitions on it. When it asks about
other OSs to boot you will point the install to your windows drive. This
should rebuild grub and all of the Linux partitions.
Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Garcia" <k4gps at bellsouth.net>
To: <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: [Xastir] Somewhat OT: Updating Linux


> OK guys.. somewhat off topic but this is the best forum I know to get a
> solid fast reply. Since Xastir is the only thing I plan on working with on
> Linux I guess it is on topic. I am almost ready to install RH9, I
currently
> have RH8 in there and got 1 more .iso to download for RH9. I use GRUB with
> Win2K on my first disk and RH8 on a second disk. I would like to fully
> delete RH8 from the second disk and install RH9 as a clean install.
>
> How can I dump RH8 AND GRUB so that my PC is back to a normal Win2K box
only
> ? I have never been able to remove GRUB in the past. Once I get to that
> point then I will re-install RH9. I had difficulties installing RH8
because
> it would not see my ATI All in Wonder PCI card, I ended up installing a
old
> Voodoo 3 TV/FM card in there and finally got it to work. I want to be sure
> that I have a 100% clean install this time, there may be a mess in my old
> install because of the errors when I first installed.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich K4GPS
>
>
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