I have searched for this info for hours, so don't be too harsh if it's old news. I have SuSe 7.1 installed on a dual boot system with Win98SE. I want to know how to replace this with a different distro, possibly Mandrake or Libranet (SuSE is pecking my head). People seem to do this sort of thing all the time but it's a first for me.

"I have searched for this info for hours, so don't be too harsh if it's old news. I have SuSe 7.1 installed on a dual boot system with Win98SE. I want to know how to replace this with a different distro, possibly Mandrake or Libranet (SuSE is pecking my head). People seem to do this sort of thing all the time but it's a first for me."

What you do is partition to create a triple boot system with SuSE 7.1, Win98SE, and your new distribution. You can use a single swap partition on multiple Linux systems. Then you install your new distribution in an empty partition. You triple boot until the new distribution is stable. You can access your data by mounting your SuSE 7.1 partition in your new system. When your new system is stable then move your data from SuSE 7.1 to the new system and format the SuSE 7.1 partition.

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Steve Stites