Dumb questions

Feeling that...

I have been playing with Redhat for about a year and half now and somewhat
understand where the bodies are buried (save for openldap)

and

Being thoroughly discouraged with the process of upgrading from RedHat 6 to
Redhat 7 (if I ever figure out where all that disk space went to...)

and

The thought of RPM's keep me from learning how things work (yes, this Redhat
user has actually installed a number of tarballs and gotten them to work)

I am thinking that I might want to try debian.

Thus my dumb questions...

1. If I have RedHat and Windows 98 already installed, and I want to remove
Redhat to install Debian, and I had RedHat install lilo in the mbr, can I
simply use fdisk to remove the Redhat partitions, install debian and expect
it to fix lilo in the mbr? My point is not to be forced to install Windows
again - waste of time but I want to keep Windows on that computer in case my
daughter needs to use a Windows computer while I use the other one.

2. if I have
/dev/hda10          /
/dev/hda2           /boot
/dev/hda9           /chroot
/dev/hda12          /home
/dev/hda11          /opt
/dev/hda7           /tmp
/dev/hda6           /usr/local
/dev/hda5           /var
(obviously hda1 is Windows)
can I have debian erase each partition except hda1 and hda12 (/home) or can
I erase them before installing debian? I can do this with redhat but not
sure about debian.

3. Can I get JLF to share his debian sources once more?

4. Is there anything else that a redhat lamoid needs to know to install
debian?

Thanks,

Craig

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