Got Linux Mint! How do i do this?

[bolle]

I have Linux Mint, and Ubuntu dual booting right now..

How can i uninstall ubuntu from the system so it just has Linux Mint on my laptop?

Thanks!

[intoDesign.ca]

Goto terminal and type the following

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sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Just make sure you make a copy of the first in case you mess things up. Comment or delete the lines in reference to Ubuntu. Then use gParted to delete your ubuntu partitions.

[bolle]

okay, ill do that later..

but i just booted up, and before grub started, i got an error when it said grub 1.5 loading and stuff
and it said error 16..
and then it booted in..

and can you explain this more for me?
like how to delete it.

[bolle]

i did the terminal thing, and it said sudo : gedit : command not found

[DrHu]

I have Linux Mint, and Ubuntu dual booting right now..

okay, ill do that later..

but i just booted up, and before grub started, i got an error when it said grub 1.5 loading and stuff
and it said error 16..
and then it booted in..

Let me try and understand this, your first post said, I am dual booting Mint and Ubuntu, and want to remove Ubuntu
--next post, I' do that later (edit /boot/grub/menu.1st), but now boot has error 16

Whoa!, what happened between I am dual booting and now I get grub error 16

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html

• grub errors for stage 1.5
  16 : "Device string unrecognizable"
  This error is returned if a device string was expected, and the string encountered didn't fit the syntax/rules listed in the Filesystem Description.

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/filesystem.txt

[bolle]

no idea, when i posted that first post, it was right after i installed linux..
when i got error 16, it was after i restarted.

[Acid_1]

Use a LiveCD and mount the drive that Mint is on, then open it's /boot/grub/menu.lst. Post it here and we'll fix it up for you. Afterwards, we'll show you how to actually get rid of Ubuntu, rather than hide it.

[bolle]

okay, but... im now getting error 18 in grub. this is after i deleted the ubuntu partition.

[bolle]

okay, no more errors..
i made a 250 mb boot drive in the beginning of the HD..

so howq can i uninstall ubuntu?

i tried deleting all the stuff about it in the grub terminal thing.. but its still there?

and i deleted the partition

[intoDesign.ca]

Can you be more specific about what is showing up? If you deleted the partitons and removed the entries from GRUB, then there should be no indication of ubuntu anywhere

[Anaxis]

Odd...Can you take a screenshot of the /boot/grub/menu.lst for us? There may still be an existing entry for Ubuntu in there somewhere.

[bolle]

i went to the terminal for grub and nothing was there..

:S

[Anaxis]

You did try

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

correct?

[bolle]

well i did sudo nano because im in xfce

[FedoraRefugee]

Why not just install Mint from scratch and use the whole drive? It would be infinity easier. 15 minutes and you are done.

[vrkalak]

That's what I did . . . as FedoraRefuge has said:

I had a triple boot . . . Vista, Ubuntu and LinuxMint.
I saved all files, backed-up everything and did a complete install of LinusMint-7 (Main)

Deleted both Vista and Ubuntu, partitioned the complete hard-drive to LinuxMint.
Easier than deciding, should I make that partition this big or maybe make another partition for . . . ?
Also, read in the (LinuxMint and Ubuntu) Forums, that upgrading or using a re-partitioning manager can sometimes cause more problems.
Better and easier if you could do a 'fresh install'

Have not encountered a single problem with it .... m'thinks, I made a wise choice.
Maybe, in the future, after I try out LinuxMint-8 Helena, for a while ... I'll start "distro hopping" ... but for now, I'm happy with my OS.

[bolle]

okay everything is fine now..
i just need to boot into a live cd and resize the linux mint partitioon..

should i delete the 250 mb boot thing at the beginning?