Tony wrote:
> I have RH 9 installed on a second hard drive on a dual boot system
> with XP home on main drive. I want to install either mandrake or suse
> in place of the redhat that I have on it now. What is my easiest
> option to get rid of the redhat and install mandrake or suse. Will I
> have to get rid of the MBR and the grub?? I am not to sure on doing
> all that without messing up my windows XP I already have. Do I just do
> a format on that drive with the linux? Will that leave the MBR and
> GRUB alone?? I just want to get rid of the Redhat and replace it with
> the other and still have grub to give me my dual boot options. Any
> suggestions on the EASIEST AND SAFEST way to do this for a new linux
> user. Please Help and all have a nice day.
Like somebody else said, you can just install over your existing Redhat
partitions. Part of the process will be to format the old partitions,
and another part will involve overwriting the existing grub
installation. Everything should be erased and overwritten nicely. I
wouldn't worry about uninstalling first.
Chad Martin
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