Installation of Fedora over SuSE

[Francois Ouellette]

I will know for sure how it goes later today. Thanks for those who replied.

BTW how do you compare SuSe with Fedora? One reason I am switching is that
since Novell took over SuSE it has changed the distributions and now there
is no longer a "free" personal desktop distribution.

Also it seems that there are a few exotic things in the SuSE bash that
prevents me from installing the OpenSource Ingres r3 database software.

I will see how it goes with Fedora.

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>


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Sent: Saturday, 05 March, 2005 22:19
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Installation of Fedora over SuSE


I just did the opposite: installed Suse over a Redhat installation. Suse
detected an existing linux installation and asked whether it should be
replaced. I answered 'yes' and the installation proceeded as normal from
there.

Peter H.




> I'm not familiar with FC3 install but from what I know, if you boot the
> CD and let the install run, you can use fdisk to manually
> partition/configure or let the installer do it for you. It will likely
> automatically (with prompting) wipe your SuSE for you (which you want)
> and install Lilo or Grub over the old bootloader.
>
> But then, I've not installed Fedora so I could be totally off on this
> one ;)
>
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:51 -0500, Francois Ouellette wrote:
>> Hello gang,
>>
>> I am about to install Fedora Core 3 (from CD's) over an existing
>> installation of SuSE 9.1.
>> This is a dual-boot disk with grub, which has been partitioned using
>> parted
>> when SuSE was installed.
>>
>> Any advice on what to do first? Erase grub? Wipe out SuSE?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>   François Ouellette
>> <fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
>>
>>
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