Re: [SLE] RH-to-Suse migration

From: Lars Noren (lars.noren_at_mbox321.swipnet.se)
Date: 11/04/03

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    Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:31:58 +0100
To: pspotts@alum.mit.edu

     From my experience SuSE will format and use existing partitions if
    there are any and if they can be used. The only time I've seen SuSE
    installation program create partitions is when there were no partitions
    at all.

    /Lars

    Peter N. Spotts wrote:
    > Folks,
    >
    > On ye olde RedHat list, the discussion is running hot and heavy about
    > the hat's pending changes. And several posters there suggested Suse (for
    > a PC/laptop user such as me) as an alternative. My question: When
    > installing Suse, must it be a clean install, or can one use the
    > partitions RH set up? Or does Suse's installation software wipe the disk
    > clean and start afresh anyway?
    >
    > Thanks for any help on this...
    >
    > Pete 

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