Thinkpad W510 advice

[Matt Harrison]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, bauerh <bauerh at rogers.com> wrote:
> I am about to take possession of my new Thinkpad W510, which comes with
> Genuine Windows 7 Professional(32bit), Intel
> Core i7-720QM Processor(1.6 GHz, 6MB L3,1333MHz). I do NOT intend to use
> Windows but install ubuntu 10.10.
> As I am not sure about the correct procedure of removing win 7 from the
> installation without jeopardising a clean ubuntu installation, your expert,
> highly experienced guidance is sought and kindly requested.
> Hans
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The simplest thing to do would be, when installing 10.10, to tell the
partitioner to use the entire disk. This will completely remove the
Windows 7 partition and when GRUB installs it will rewrite the MBR and
you will have no trace of Windows on the machine.