I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data copied over, I booted up into Gentoo properly.
This way, I could mount the old Suse partition to have access to my old configuration files, and fix any problems I was having. So basically, if you have space and a spare partition/drive, I would install side by side until everything is working OK before binning Suse. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
