replacing openSUSE with fedora 10 without formatting disk partition

[prabhat.khera]

hi all,

I am using openSUSE 11.1 and want it to be replaced by fedora 10 without formatting the hard-disk partition. I am not sure whether it is possible or not.

I mean to say that, is there any program installer which can install software from fedora repositories and replace software already installed from opensuse repositories??

Many thanks,

Prabhat Khera

[mastertux]

if you got a seperate /home partition you can remove any other partition and install fedora without removing your /home partition but if you don't I think that the best solution is to save your data and reinstall everything and I'll suggest you to create a seperate /home partition in which you put your datas

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[prabhat.khera]

thanks mastertux,

I have separate /home partition and I know I can do save /home and reinstall fedora by formatting other partitions but is there any other way that I will just install fedora without formatting any disk partition through fedora repositories?????

many thanks

[stevea]

You need to "format" the root partition that Fedora will install on. You do not need to revise any other partition.

It would be a mistake to expect Fedora or any other release install on top of an existing root file system. You *may* be able to do it but the result may be a huge mess. You'll have executables in /sbin and /bin that expect specific shared libraries revs that won't exist. Total mess.

if you have a 15-25GB or larger partition for the root file system, then just use the Fedora installation DVD and select "custom disk configuration" and indicate only the root file system "/".