Re: uninstall Debian Linux

From: Douglas Pollard (Dougpol1_at_oasisonline.com)
Date: 03/01/04

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    To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:49:14 -0400

    HS,
        I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor shows
    what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen printing seems
    to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. I took the disc out and
    the same thing continued 30 min. or so. I had to stop it by killing the
    power to the computer. I have Debian installed and was trying to install
    over top of it.
        Do I have to remove Debian first and of course if so how??
                                                                    Doug

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>
    To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:16 PM
    Subject: Re: uninstall Debian Linux

    > Ken Gilmour wrote:
    > > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:04, Douglas Pollard wrote:
    > >
    > >>I installed debian from cd without any documentation other than what I
    have
    > >>been able to get on line.After struggling with it for a while, I bought
    a
    > >>Red hat Linux book with a couple cd's. With a book in front of me I hope
    to
    > >>do better. Can someone tell me how to uninstall Debian or install red
    hat
    > >>over top? Or at lest give me a link to a site where I can get the info.
    > >
    > >
    > > Debian is an Operating System and does not need to be "uninstalled" you
    > > simply put in your Redhat CD's and it will bring you to a part of the
    > > installation process where it will ask you if you want to remove all
    > > partitions, this will remove debian.
    > >
    > > I would advise against using Redhat because the support for it is / is
    > > nearly finished for it.
    >
    >
    > True for Redhat. But the new focus in RH is on Fedora. What was Redhat
    > before is Fedora now -- Redhat is not free anymore but Fedora is. And
    > Fedora is very actively supported in linux.redhat or any other
    > newsgroups which was Redhat relevant. So in case of Fedora (which is
    > just Redhat before release -- something similar to what is Sarge to
    > Woody), you *do* have active support. How? You get notifications if any
    > updates are due (with RHN icon). And you can use either apt-get or yum
    > to automatically install the updates. No pain at all.
    >
    > To the OP: If you want to try Redhat, try Fedora. The installation is a
    > dream as compared to Debian. Debian installation might be easier if you
    > were to use the new installed, or so they say.
    >
    > ->HS
    >
    >
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