Installation of Fedora over SuSE

[Jamon Camisso]

Well, part of why I've shied away from Fedora is because it is a
glorified beta for Red Hat itself. To anyone who knows, how exactly does
FC2 relate to FC3? Is FC2 a beta that was ditched for a new verison or
is it a stable release with FC3 being the test release? I hear Fedora
has a great forum though, a distinctly appealing feature for me. I might
check it (Fedora) out depending on how your experience with it.

I'm sure that SuSE vs. Fedora is like Intel vs. AMD or any other similar
comparison -- certain applications or features are present in one and
not the other and vice versa. 

Which other (if any) distributions made your shortlist?

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 08:35 -0500, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> 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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