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. Thanks, folks! -- John Duke INTERNET: jkduke@vcu.edu VCU Libraries VOICE: 804/828-1100 Virginia Commonwealth University FAX: 804/828-0151
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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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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 would install into a separate partition or disk, but I have some general recommendations for Linux installations regardless of distro: Make a separate /home partition. This way, whenever you upgrade, you will preserve your /home. When dual booting Linux, you can share the /home. Secondly, I like to have a separate /usr/local file system. For
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John Duke
Make a separate /home partition. This way, whenever you upgrade, you will preserve your /home. When dual booting Linux, you can share the /home.
Yup - I second that. Also handy if you decide to move to a central server model - you can just drop the /home into an NFS export. Flexibility is king here.
up somewhere. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group and some other configuration files should be saved to preserve any user passwords.
As a matter of fact, I'm a bit irritated that it is apparently 'standards base' compatible to stick DNS setups in /var/named. If it was left at /etc/ named you had all the system configs in one place, making it a matter of creating a tgz file of /etc/ to preserve *all* your settings. No idea why it had to move to /var... = P =
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.
Thanks, folks!
That depends on what you've got on your current system. Protect any files you feel necessary, including the /home/* directories. Then I'd recommend letting the intall reformate the directories such as /usr /boot etc. You shouln't have to reformat or erase anything under /home, /opt or /usr/local etc., though you may want to.
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