Wiping Windows partition
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 3:32 amThis weekend I went to a lan-party and while I'm attending such events on a regular basis this was actually the first time where I was determined to try and NOT boot Windows at all.
I had to boot win2K after all, but the problems I encountered were due to sheer user incompetence (as is so often the case).
Once I resolved the issues I had (a missing parameter in a control panel of DCGUI) I stayed in RH and didn't look back anymore.
In fact this weekend I realized that I had no need for windows at all anymore, if some application is not available for Linux (such as Internet banking at my bank) I will simply not use it at all and try to make them make it available for Linux.
This brings me to my question.
My harddrive setup is like this at hte moment
hda1: Win2K Fat32 10GB
hda2: Fat32 partition 30GB
hdb1: ext3 partition 40GB
hdb2: RH8 40GB
I guess I could fdisk hda1 and hda2 and convert the partitions to ext3, leave everything else as is and continue to use my existing installation.
But wouldn't it be better to physically swap the drives, making hdb becoming hda or wouldn't that make any difference? (both are 7200 rpm drives but the 80GB has 8MB cache and is slightly faster)
And if I did that, would I only have to change a few entries to grub.conf and fstab or are there other things to take into consideration as well?
One thing I probably will be stuck with is that RH8 will alwas be on the second partition of the WD 80GB drive, but I'd like to swap in a new drive probably a WD 200GB and I'd like to make the setup as smooth as possible.
I had to boot win2K after all, but the problems I encountered were due to sheer user incompetence (as is so often the case).
Once I resolved the issues I had (a missing parameter in a control panel of DCGUI) I stayed in RH and didn't look back anymore.
In fact this weekend I realized that I had no need for windows at all anymore, if some application is not available for Linux (such as Internet banking at my bank) I will simply not use it at all and try to make them make it available for Linux.
This brings me to my question.
My harddrive setup is like this at hte moment
hda1: Win2K Fat32 10GB
hda2: Fat32 partition 30GB
hdb1: ext3 partition 40GB
hdb2: RH8 40GB
I guess I could fdisk hda1 and hda2 and convert the partitions to ext3, leave everything else as is and continue to use my existing installation.
But wouldn't it be better to physically swap the drives, making hdb becoming hda or wouldn't that make any difference? (both are 7200 rpm drives but the 80GB has 8MB cache and is slightly faster)
And if I did that, would I only have to change a few entries to grub.conf and fstab or are there other things to take into consideration as well?
One thing I probably will be stuck with is that RH8 will alwas be on the second partition of the WD 80GB drive, but I'd like to swap in a new drive probably a WD 200GB and I'd like to make the setup as smooth as possible.
