On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:17, Frank Mandato wrote:
>   I have  RH 9 and I am pretty happy with it. The end of life is 
> sometime in April and I would like to know if I can change over to 
> Fedora without losing most of the programs that I have , i.e. O.O. , 
> StarOffice and the like.
> 
>   I have been following this list for quite a while and would like to 
> know if I have to start from scratch, clean install, or if I can just 
> switch over to Fedora without too many problems.
> 
>   TIA.
> 
>   FrankM
> 

Hi Frank,

If you've got the room on your hard drive do a clean install (NOT over
your RH9). From there you can ease your way into Fedora and copy the
config details off of the older RH9 partition. This is how I did my
transition from RH8 and I've had very few problems (building a nvidia
graphics driver was one - let me know if you want details).

Also, if you don't already use grub you will need to learn it. Fedora
doesn't use Lilo.

Bart