How do I uninstall linux Mandriva?
I have Linux Mandriva dual booting with Windows Vista on my laptop and I want to uninstall Mandriva so I can install Ubuntu. I’ve read similar questions to this and a lot of them said I need a boot CD. Well I only have system recovery discs that came with my computer. I also saw that I could use the Win98 boot Floppy disc. Well my laptop doesn’t have a floppy disc drive – is there anywhere I can get it on CD? Where do I get that? It would also help if you could mention the steps to uninstall it like the commands to type, etc. Thank you so much if you answer.
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Filed under: Mandrake
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Put the ubuntu disk in the drive and reboot go through the install process until you get to the part that asks where to install ubuntu. All you have to do is install it on the Mandrival partition. Ubuntu should prompt you that it has found a linux partition and may even ask if this is where you want to install it.
Let ubuntu install the boot loader Grub, on your MBR this is the default place for this and should overwrite your Mandrival boot loader.
You shouldn’t need a recovery disk or boot disk other than the installation disk from ubuntu, just make sure your Bios are set to boot from your CD/DVD drive first, some machines allow you to press F12 at boot to load the CD, you won’t need to uninstall Mandriva the install process will overwrite mandriva.
you can remove mandriva, easily..
first remove their boot loader, using this >
http://www.vistabootpro.org/
(free download)
and you can restore the boot loader back / remove the entry for the other thing.. so it will autoboot into vista.. after that
go into ya control panel >
admin tools > computer managment > disk management
right click on the partition(s) its installed in .. then right click "remove partition"
All you need is the Ubuntu install Disk. It has a partitioner that will allow you to delete the Mandriva partition and replace it with an Ubuntu partition.