-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 March 2004 05:10 pm, John Duke wrote:
I am currently running Red Hat 9 with a Windows 98 partition on an AMD processor. I am considering migrating to SUSE. I'm trying to find a how-to on it. Any suggestions? Do I wipe out my Red Hat, create a new partition, overlay, or what? My Linux skills are modest, so dumbed down is good.
I's say it's a question of how much you know about Linux, how much data you have, where your data is located, how things, are partitioned, and how much time your willing to invest. If you can back you data up to a different location, and getting it done is your main objective rather than learning the gory details, I'd recommend the dynamite and wrecking ball approach. Another alternative is to remove all the linux specific stuff from the harddrive (excluding partitions and data, with a risk of data loss), and see if you can get the SuSE installation program to use your existing partitions. I've never done that migration, so there may be other alternatives. You may even get SuSE to install/upgrade from the Red Hat, but I have not evidence that it would work.
John Duke INTERNET: jkduke@vcu.edu
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