Ok, I didn't catch the start of this, but I suspect just vaping your Suse
install and putting Mandrake 8 on "clean" might be the best route.
One of the problems with mix'n'match distros is that paths aren't
necessarily the same for any given package. For example, Apache on Mandrake
8 puts its webdocs directory in /var/www/html (wrongly, in my opinion)
instead of the more common /home/httpd/html.
Sorting out that lot will just be a nightmare.
The good news is that you if you can mount your DOS partition (if it's dual
boot), you can back up anything you want to keep (stuff from home
directories?) by archiving with tar, and copying them across. Use tar to
keep file permissions - if you just copy them to a DOS/VFAT partition, they
will lose ownership and become chmod'ed 755.
Hope this helps a bit...
Gordonjcp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Shearer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 14 July 2001 21:41
Subject: [scottish] Mixing bits of different distros.
> First, thanks to people for their suggestions about how best to get my
> video card running on Suse 7.0. I decided trying a later / different
distro
> was the best idea, and I've now got Mandrake 8.0 installed and running
> reasonably well, although I've still some tweaking to do. (Suse 7.1 was
bit
> sniffy about my mouse, despite it being a standard M$ PS/2 wheel mouse).
>
> My next question is: how easy is it to install the various bits of
software
> which came with Suse on a Mandrake system? Is it simpler (for a newbie) to
> install the newer (Mandrake) distro and then add on the files from the
> older version, or to install the older version first and then update it
> with the relevant parts of the older system? Or should I simply cut my
> losses and buy the full Mandrake 8.0 boxed set?
>
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