how to chang a distribution

[Tahir Saleh]

is it allowed to change a distribution and is it possible, if possible than how.

[devils casper]

is it allowed to change a distribution

yes. nobody can stop you doing that. i have six distros installed in my machine. 90% of Linux distros are free to download and use.

is it possible if possible than how.

if you are planning to remove installed distro, just boot up from new Distro's Installation CD/DVD and delete exsiting partitions in 'Partition Section'.
for dual booting, create unpartitioned/free space and select that in partition section. installer will setup dual boot for you.

[Tahir Saleh]

is it possible add to a contribution an rpm such that when i install a distro my rpm gets installed too.

[devils casper]

hmm... you didn't phrase your question in first post correctly.
it is possible to Modify Source Code of distros and you can include your 'rpm' packages in rpm based distros. but i dont know How. sorry i can't help you here.

hold on. if anyone know the procedure, you will definitely get reply.

[savvy_cowgirl]

if you are planning to remove installed distro, just boot up from new Distro's Installation CD/DVD and delete exsiting partitions in 'Partition Section'.
for dual booting, create unpartitioned/free space and select that in partition section. installer will setup dual boot for you.

I think I want to try a different linux distro than SUSE, I already am partitoned to duel boot with vista, for now.(bleah) Do I want to do the deleting existing partitions? I want to keep Vista's where it is at. I just want to replace the SUSE on my created F drive with a different linux distro.

Thank you!

[devils casper]

I think I want to try a different linux distro than SUSE, I already am partitoned to duel boot with vista, for now.(bleah) Do I want to do the deleting existing partitions? I want to keep Vista's where it is at. I just want to replace the SUSE on my created F drive with a different linux distro.

insert installation CD/DVD of other distro and select SuSe partitions in Partition Section during installation. Installer will overwrite SuSe partitions.
best way imho is, delete Linux Partition through Disk Management Tool of windows and leave it as unpartitioned/free. installer will create and format partitions for you.

[savvy_cowgirl]

best way imho is, delete Linux Partition through Disk Management Tool of windows and leave it as unpartitioned/free. installer will create and format partitions for you.

thank you, if I do it this way, will I be able to keep the little 5GB FAT partition that I put in when I installed SUSE so that I could share some open office files and pictures between windoze & SUSE? I don't really remember how I finally did it as I had a lot of trouble partitioning and am afraid I couldn't figure it out again.
Thank you so much, I can't wait to try a different distro. I realized folks sometimes try different distros till they find one that suits them. I would like to try at least one more. If I decide to put SUSE back on will this same method work?
You are very kind to help, thanks again!

[devils casper]

delete Linux Partitions only. dont touch any FAT32 or NTFS partition.
Windows doesn't recongnize Linux Partitions and mark those as Unknown. delete all Unknown partitions in Disk Management Tool.

[savvy_cowgirl]

ok, under computer management>disk management it shows 6 blocks. The first one is C: which contains Vista, then there are 3 SUSE blocks I think. One is 2 GB and I think that is suppose to be swap, then there is one block that is 20 GB and one that is 54.1 GB. I don't know why they aren't combined into one big block. Then there is my little 5 GB FAT spot and the last is my D: drive that is suppose to be my HP/Vista recovery. If I highlight a SUSE block and right click on it I have a choice of "delete volume". Is that what you are telling me to do? If so, this is way easier than trying to partition to install it!
Thank you so much Devils_Casper!

[devils casper]

do you have LiveCD of any distro? i suggest you to download GParted LiveCD. its one of the best partition manager and its size is 30MB only. download .iso image, burn it to CD and boot up from it.
open its terminal and execute 'fdisk -l' command post output here. its really easy to handle partition with GParted.