On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:13:26PM -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks,
On ye olde RedHat list, the discussion is running hot and heavy about the hat's pending changes. And several posters there suggested Suse (for a PC/laptop user such as me) as an alternative. My question: When installing Suse, must it be a clean install, or can one use the partitions RH set up? Or does Suse's installation software wipe the disk clean and start afresh anyway?
Thanks for any help on this...
Pete --
I haven't tried it, but SuSE does read the partition table and allow you to select an "expert" option to setup the partitions and mounts as you please. I imagine you could simply keep the RedHat created partitions, assuming the filesystem types are supporting on SuSE, and just have the SuSE installer format them and allow the installation to continue. -Jim-