One can opt to have Mandrake format the partitions,
but not remove them during the first part of the install,
please e mail back if you need any more info.
Hope this helps.
Vic
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, GlacierTrek wrote:
> Hey folks. . .
>
> About a year ago, I partitioned my handdrive and installed a copy of Redhat
> 5.2 on my PC. I've spent very little time fooling with it since. I've now
> decided that I'd really like to learn Linux but would rather do so via
> Mandrake 7.1 rather than upgrading to a newer version of Redhat . I'm at
> a loss for tracking down info about how one would uninstall Redhat and
> install another Linux distribution such as Mandrake 7.1. It's certainly
> not info offered in any of the Redhat users guides that I've got.
>
> Would someone on the list be kind enough to walk me through the necessary
> steps for uninstalling Redhat from my PC, yet keeping the existing
> partition for Linux intact (I'm also using Windows 95) in preparation for a
> clean installation of Mandrake 7.1 ? I can't find such information in any
> of the Redhat books/users manuals I've got. I'm assuming that there are a
> few people on this mailing list who've been down this same path before. It
> would just be great to not have to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Any/all feedback or suggestions would be greatly appraciated. Thanks ; )
>
> John Gasbarre
> Vinalhaven Island, ME
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/hunzaman1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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> John A. Gasbarre
> Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA
> http://facelink.com/i90
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>
> "Two people have been living in you all your life.
> One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical,
> calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being,
> whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely
> heard or attended to." --Sogyal Rinpoche
