[newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
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] * * * * * John A. Gasbarre Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA http://facelink.com/i90 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "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
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
At 01-10-2000 04:12 AM, you wrote: about how one would uninstall Redhat and install another Linux distribution such as Mandrake 7.1. Hi, If you want to install Mandrake over RedHat, just boot your computer with the boot disk from Mandrake (or a pure DOS boot disk). Proceed with Mandrake installation - (as if nothing is there) - Linux-Mandrake will detect the existing linux and 'ask' you for permission to over-write/delete, 'say OK' and carry on, every thing will be fine. IF you are going to remove linux (any distro) and install some other OS, then surf to : http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/getting-started-guide/sl-q-and-a-removing.html I did both above procedures and both worked for me. Regards
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
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 It's easy...don't worry about it. Just run the Mandrake install and it'll see the Linux partitions and use them, overwriting the RH installation. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, you 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] * * * * * John A. Gasbarre Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA http://facelink.com/i90 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "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 My friend, upgrading to Mandrake 7.1 is very simple being that Mandrake is 100% compad. with red hat, you can just install (upgrade)from red hat. I had 6.1 and all I did was run the upgrade program.. every thing was ok since then.. I hope this helped some. good luck Gavin
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
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 ? John Gasbarre Vinalhaven Island, ME http://profiles.yahoo.com/hunzaman1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] During the 7.1 (also 7.2) install you'll be able to choose to keep your existing partitions, and which ones you want to format. So you don't need to uninstall RH, just select all your ext2 partitons for re-formatting during the Mandrake install -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
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] * * * * * John A. Gasbarre Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA http://facelink.com/i90 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "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
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
Tom: Thanks for the info. I appreciate you taking the time. John During the 7.1 (also 7.2) install you'll be able to choose to keep your existing partitions, and which ones you want to format. So you don't need to uninstall RH, just select all your ext2 partitons for re-formatting during the Mandrake install -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay * * * * * John Gasbarre Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA http://profiles.yahoo.com/hunzaman1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
-Original Message- During the 7.1 (also 7.2) install you'll be able to choose to keep your existing partitions, and which ones you want to format. So you don't need to uninstall RH, just select all your ext2 partitons for re-formatting during the Mandrake install This raises a couple of questions. (1) Must one reformat all the ext2 partitions? If you have any kind of extensive home directory that could be a pain. ON the other hand if your /home is on a different partition I can certainly see the benefit of formatting all BUT /home. It would get a rid of a lot of detritus that could trip you up later I suppose. Of course there you would also lose any optional installed packages and that could be a pain. (2) When Mandrake 7.2 comes out, what will be the best way to *upgrade* (not replace) Mandrake 7.1? I started with 7.1 on a clean disk and now I don't remember if there was an "upgrade" choice. Thanks, -rick
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
Rick: In reply to your second question, yes, 7.1 does have an upgrade option. I used it to move from 7.0 -- it took a long, long time -- hours as opposed to the 45 minutes or so that it took to install 7.0. Since there wasn't all that much non-distro stuff on the drive, it might have been a better idea to backup the data, clean the disk, install the newer Mandrake, configure and restore the data. -- Carroll Rick Commo wrote: -Original Message- snip (2) When Mandrake 7.2 comes out, what will be the best way to *upgrade* (not replace) Mandrake 7.1? I started with 7.1 on a clean disk and now I don't remember if there was an "upgrade" choice. Thanks, -rick
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Rick: In reply to your second question, yes, 7.1 does have an upgrade option. I used it to move from 7.0 -- it took a long, long time -- hours as opposed to the 45 minutes or so that it took to install 7.0. Since there wasn't all that much non-distro stuff on the drive, it might have been a better idea to backup the data, clean the disk, install the newer Mandrake, configure and restore the data. -- Carroll I agree with this. The upgrade from mdk7.0 to mdk7.1 took 7 HOURS on my machine, and its a PIII @ 733mhz with 128 meg of ram. That is a loong time. Eryl
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
Erylon Hines wrote: On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Rick: In reply to your second question, yes, 7.1 does have an upgrade option. I used it to move from 7.0 -- it took a long, long time -- hours as opposed to the 45 minutes or so that it took to install 7.0. Since there wasn't all that much non-distro stuff on the drive, it might have been a better idea to backup the data, clean the disk, install the newer Mandrake, configure and restore the data. -- Carroll I agree with this. The upgrade from mdk7.0 to mdk7.1 took 7 HOURS on my machine, and its a PIII @ 733mhz with 128 meg of ram. That is a loong time. Eryl I don't understand what happens here, I upgraded my 7.0 and it took about 1.5 hrs to do a development upgrade. I run an AMD K6-II 400 Processor. I see all kinds of different run times and there does'nt seem to be any rhyme or reason. Any body have an idea why the spread in upgrade time? -- Dennis M. a registered Linux User #180842
Re: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, you wrote: -Original Message- During the 7.1 (also 7.2) install you'll be able to choose to keep your existing partitions, and which ones you want to format. So you don't need to uninstall RH, just select all your ext2 partitons for re-formatting during the Mandrake install This raises a couple of questions. (1) Must one reformat all the ext2 partitions? not necessarily, but the original poster was wanting to upgrade from RH 5.xIn that case I wouldn't try anything but a format/install If you have any kind of extensive home directory that could be a pain. ON the other hand if your /home is on a different partition I can certainly see the benefit of formatting all BUT /home. doesn't make any difference, formatting in 7.x is *quick* (2) When Mandrake 7.2 comes out, what will be the best way to *upgrade* (not replace) Mandrake 7.1? I started with 7.1 on a clean disk and now I don't remember if there was an "upgrade" choice. -rick I installed 7.2 b3 yesterday. As with every 'upgrade since 6.0, I save the personal and conf files I want to keep, and wipe the old system...and do a fresh install. It's better and quicker than an upgrade. BTW, upgrade in 7.2 is labeled 'rescue'. AND, 7.2 beta 3 is very rough around the edges. I can't recommend it for less than the adventurous. Wait for a release candidate or the final if you plan on upgrading to 7.2. Besides some obvious Mandrake system bugs, I don't believe KDE2 or XF-4 is entirely there yet either -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Replacing Redhat with Mandrake 7.1
It was Oct 1, 2000, 16:27, when Rick Commo keyboarded: (1) Must one reformat all the ext2 partitions? Nope. You can select the partition you want to format, even go without any formatting. (2) When Mandrake 7.2 comes out, what will be the best way to *upgrade* (not replace) Mandrake 7.1? I started with 7.1 on a clean disk and now I don't remember if there was an "upgrade" choice. There IS an upgrade option. I have used it from Redhat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0, 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1. So I am pretty certain. ;) Paul -- The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, Until you bring fresh toner. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
