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Question #46893 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/46893

    Status: Answered => Open

pstjmack is still having a problem:
John, thanks for your reply. I've attached copies of the partition
manager readout for my drives - as you can see, the sda drive appears to
have the remains of the old Xandros OS partition, and the sdb drive
seems to have all the area accessible via Ubuntu. Do you have any advice
on how to proceed, and also, how to delete the old OS from the sda
partitions before merging them with the sdb?

Thanks and regards,

Paul


On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 13:40 +0000, JohnO wrote:
> Your question #46893 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/46893
>     Status: Open => Answered
> 
> JohnO proposed the following answer:
> note: i'm not an expert on linux but i think i know what has happened
> 
> i saw something similar when i installed ubuntu on my 901. It appears
> that the eee come with two "disks" - one i(/dev/sda) s 4 gig and the
> other (/dev/sdb) is 16G. I think its done like this because the original
> eee 701 came with just 4G (sda) and they added a 16G card to the later
> models. when you installed ubuntu it detected the bootable OSs on the
> sda disk and added them to the boot process. The orignal OSs are the
> recovery system and I think a mirror of the eee OS (i think the xandros
> eee used a filesystem where only the changes made to the default OS were
> made to the local user copy - but I could be wrong here!)
> 
> If you want to use the space  on sda you don't need to reinstall - you
> can use the partition manager to delete the partitions on sda and make
> new one for you to use.
> 
> to get rid of the boot options you need to modify the boot loader to
> tell it not to show you them, or to reduce the time to wait for a
> choice.I think the ubuntu boot manager is grub - so have a look around
> for some how-to for that - there is a big manual here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
> 
> hope this helps
>

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