[wellylug] A few queries

David Murray newslists at electronincantation.net.nz
Sun Mar 19 15:02:13 NZST 2006


>> I'm running Suse on a 40 G on a primary slave, but am thinking of wiping
>> Redmond OS completely. To do that, I need to know how to transfer the
>> partitions over, and possibly (well, probably) having to rewrite the
>> MBR/LILO/GRUB in order to remove any traces.
>
> You can edit your bootloader settings from within YaST.
>
> Select "System" and then "bootloader", and then on the "Section Management" 
> tab you will be able to modify or remove sections as you want.
>
> WRT the partition(s) used (formerly) by Redmond, you can do what you like to 
> them again within YaST by selecting "System" and then "Partitioner". 
> Partitioner takes a little longer to start than the "Bootloader" applet.

I forgot to say... Be Very Careful - don't trash any partitions you want 
to keep! :o)


Cheers

David




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