I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I've seen enough to realise that it is now safe to remove my Windows partition :-)

I am currently partitioned as:

/boot - 84 Mbyte
/ - 1.9 Gbyte - RedHat 8.0. Almost no free space.
/mnt/windows - 3.8 Gbyte. Can be wiped.

What I would like to do is install RH9 on the old Windows partition, but without disturbing RH8. Preferably as a dual-boot, at least until I have RH9 working properly (including migrating the Samba and iptables configurations, etc).

Also, I'm on broadband... so it would be really handy to do this on-line without burning loads of CDs.

Only one simple question: How?

IMO the easiest thing would be to go to RH8, nuke the MICROS~1 partition, prep the partitions you'll need, label them clearly. Then write a bootdisk and do a FTP install from a RH mirror nearby.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've started down that route... and got as far as starting the ftp install. However, it failed and the error message wasn't terribly useful (seems not to be able to find a file, although I can't understand why), which means restarting... hence rather an inefficient use of bandwidth.

I'm downloading the disk images now and will install the old-fashioned way in the next day or two.