On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:17, Frank Mandato wrote: > I have RH 9 and I am pretty happy with it. The end of life is
> sometime in April and I would like to know if I can change over to
> Fedora without losing most of the programs that I have , i.e. O.O. ,
> StarOffice and the like.
>
> I have been following this list for quite a while and would like to
> know if I have to start from scratch, clean install, or if I can just
> switch over to Fedora without too many problems.
>
> TIA.
>
> FrankM
>
Hi Frank,
If you've got the room on your hard drive do a clean install (NOT over
your RH9). From there you can ease your way into Fedora and copy the
config details off of the older RH9 partition. This is how I did my
transition from RH8 and I've had very few problems (building a nvidia
graphics driver was one - let me know if you want details).
Also, if you don't already use grub you will need to learn it. Fedora
doesn't use Lilo.
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