Am 19. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Victor Odhner so:

> * Could I clobber RH8 and build Gentoo or Fedora,
>    without losing all my just-plain-data stored elsewhere
>    on other ext2 partitions?

Move all the data to a partition that won't get touched. Don't let the
installs touch that partition.

Look at parted if you don't have any unpartitioned space on the disk and
need to created a new partition.

ciao,

der.hans
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