I accidentally typed send while editing; sorry. here is my full post: It sounds like my best strategy is to delete my 7.04 and 7.10 installations, clean the boot choices and re-install 7.04 and 7.10 from the internet. I gather that, since I have no desire to run multiple installations, the live CDs are useless to me. I find this odd since I installed ubuntu 6.04 on by home computer with (what I believe was a live CD) and I installed 7.10 from the live CD at work (admittedly a dual boot). I assume I have to repartition my disk to get rid of the 7.04 and 7.10installations. I will use parted for this (gparted fails to start for some reason). This will be only my second time partitioning a disk so I will read the doc throughly and be careful. But I need to know how to clean up the list of installations at boot time? Advice welcome. Ralph