[Gllug] overwrite operating system

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Thu Jul 19 18:24:57 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:18:36PM +0100, Diana Scott wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have upgraded my federa 6 to 7 but the new system was unable to recognise 
> the display card in my notebook.
> 
> When I used the ubuntu 7.04 dvd to boot up the system and it was able to 
> recognise my display card. Do you think i can install the ubuntu 7.04 to 
> overwrite the existing federa 7 and maintain dual boot with windows xp?

Yes. What data have you got on the Linux partition that you might want
to preserve ? Think about it & back up somewhere. Prob not a bad idea
to take a copy of /etc as well.

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