[ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

[Peter Smout]

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On 09/03/14 17:14, Jim Price wrote:
> On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all
>> this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to
>> Xubuntu. If I use
> GParted
>> to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7, and then resize the
>> Linux partition, it strikes me that Grub might get into a mess.
>> I'm sure I could probably modify the Grub setup but is this
>> approach more trouble than
> it's
>> worth? Would I be better off just starting from scratch with a
>> fresh Xubuntu install? The reason I'd like to avoid this if
>> practical is that it always takes me a couple of days to get
>> everything just the way I like it
> whenever
>> I do a full reinstall.
>> 
>> Any advice most welcome.
> 
> What I do in such circumstances is to make sure I have an Ubuntu
> server CD of the appropriate version so that if things don't boot
> properly after removing partitions, I can just use it to re-install
> GRUB. That's about the only thing which usually goes wrong. In case
> anything else goes wrong, make backups and generate a package list,
> so at least if you do have to re-install you can just restore your
> home directory and re-install all your software easily.
> 
> 
For future reference is there a command to list installed packages?
the one thing I need to make new installs easy!!

Pete S
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