So, what you're saying here is that there's no non-destructive way to upgrade a new distribution? Since nobody answered my troll a couple of weeks ago about relative merits of various distributions, I downloaded a new RH system and am preparing to overwrite my two-year-old SUSE setup. I TGZ'd my home directory and a few other things of interest and saved 'em to my Win98 partition, figuring I don't have anything else to hold onto anyway. But don't these Linux distros have any sort of an 'upgrade' and/or 'competitive upgrade' option? I've heard advice to avoid Microsoft upgrades when possible due to accumulations of junk in the registry. But I'd think one could build a Linux installer a little smarter, since Linux apps aren't so mystically entwined with the system. I am having second thoughts about RH with the recent raves about Caldera. I have a plug'n'play 10/100 network card (D-Link installed by Cox@Home), Creative SoundBlaster 16, and Creative ModemBlaster V90 modem. If there's a distro that gives better odds for a PnP setup, I could be sold on it. I notice Yggdrasil (sp?) also boasts about strong PnP performance. Vic On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Kevin Buettner wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:44:19 -0700 > From: Kevin Buettner > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat > > On Apr 12, 9:47am, Charles Lubin wrote: > > > I would like to install Caldera 2.4 over RH, my question is; Can I do just > > that, install Caldera over RH, or do I need to remove RH before installing > > the new OS, and should that be the case how do I remove RH? > > There's no need to remove the current OS. When you do your new install, > just have it make a new file system on the partitions that you want > to overwrite. (Remaking the filesystem will effectively erase the old > OS.) > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Buettner > kev@primenet.com, kevinb@redhat.com > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >