Dumb questions

[Kevin Brown]

I believe that you can boot into windows and either format /mbr or fdisk /mbr
and it will remove lilo and place the "normal" windows boot loader.  Then boot
debian (floppy/cdrom?) and install and have debian take the mbr over again with
lilo.

> 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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