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cwrobel@dccnet.com
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:30:23 -0800
As far as I know mandrake and red hat are very simillar. In fact I
believe mandrake is based on red hat. So i think switching between
those would be easier.
As goes for SUSE I've been running various suse releases since i got my
very first linux distribution. Suse 6.0 I bought it at staples and I
still look back to that day with a smile :)
So back to your qeustion, Suse is a completely different ballpark, it
uses the yast(yet another setup tool) to do all system administration.
There for I think going from Mandrake or Red hat to Suse is nearly
impossible, But i guess i'm just saying that if you have only reasonable
amounts of spare time :)
For the future :) let me give you a very good advice!
When you install a new distro, make a separate partition for /home and a
separate for / the root file system,
On my system I've been using the same home directory the last year and a
half.
When ever I feel like trying a new distro, I erase my "/" partition and
make a clean install, than after everying installs I mount my old /home
into my new distro and BANG!!!
All your applications like Xchat, licq, netscape are configured just as
you last used them, I've installed about a dozen or more distros like
that, it works great.
Hope this helps
cheers
Vincent Janelle wrote:
> Woo. Has anyone tried upgrading a redhat box to a mandrake install?
>
> Or suse? I can see smoe issues with services and binary compatibility
> though (joy..), probably just safer to back up the data and redo the
> install.
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