Format program?

[bqz69]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 12:27:53 am Bob Hickey wrote:
> How do I delete one OS and leave the Ubuntu 9.04 as it is. I'm trying to
> keep everything as it is on my 9.04         Bob H.

Why not just leave the OS you want to delete, and then install next OS in the 
same partitions as where the OS to be deleted is sitting.

The main tools I use for my linux is:

Puppy linux for making backups of my partitions using the dd command.

gparted for manipulating partitions - now I use the version sitting in puppy

SGD Super Grub Disk for updating grub (English Super Grub disk - Advanced - 
Grub - Restore Grub in MBR Harddisk - Automatic install)

It is a bit complicated what you want to do, because you thereafter has to 
edit the "/boot/grub/menu.lst" which you make active when using SGD.
You have to know carefully which partition has the active menu.lst to be used.

Therefore make carefully copies of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file/files

Do not change the orden in which your partitions are sitting just now, because 
it could give you problems later.

I have all my OS sitting as encrypted systems as a /boot partition of 100 mb 
and / partition of 30 gb - no swap partitions at all.
When I do it like this I do not need to think so much of any directories, 
which are separate partitions, changing size.

I am the author of www.minihowto.org, and there I have made som small howtos 
about using gparted and puppy (they are a bit old, but I cannot cope with the 
fast developement of the internet -and programs, as I am fairly old :-)