From RedHat to Slackware

[nerrollus]

Is it possible to go from RedHat to Slackware without having to dump everything on my HD?

Or is it better to just kill everything and install from scratch?

[Okie]

if you have enough harddrive space you could make another ext3 disl partition and install Slackware in there, and it will share the same swapfile that Redhat is using, and do not let Slackware install LILO and then when the install is dont boot to Redhat, and add Slackware's kernel to Redhat's LILO and it will work, thats what i have on my machine now...

[mdwatts]

You could save your /home directory, application source and whatever data and config files you want to keep, but you will not be able to upgrade from Redhat to Slackware without starting from scratch.

As Okie suggested, if you have the disk space, then why not just keep Redhat and install Slackware in another partition/harddrive.

[nerrollus]

Well, I've been thinking about it and I think I'm going to just play around with RedHat for now. I'm still trying to get a feel for everything so I'm gonna wait until I feel more comfortable with Linux before going to Slack.

I think I'd actually prefer to be a slacker, but I'll cross that bridge when I get more exp under my belt. hehe ;)

Thanks for the input ..

[wolfman8k]

I'd recomend you dump redhat now and install slackware. You'll be glad you did