[KLUG Members] Fedora 2 installation

[Bruce Smith]

> report on reversing RH9 -> Fedora2:
> RH9 does NOT recognize Fedora as a LINUX distribution hence insists on
> a bare installation, not an update. 

Understandable since FC2 is newer than RH9.

I'm sure RH9 knows nothing about Fedora, since Fedora didn't exist when
RH9 came out.  (besides, it's called "upgrade", not "downgrade" :)

> I'm contemplating buying a new hard drive, mounting it on the same machine
> WITHOUT the old harddrive, do a clean RH9 installation on the new disk,
> then reintroduce the old drive as a slave drive and transfer what I want
> over.  Is that feasible?

Sure, I just did something very similar with SuSE.

My running desktop was SuSE 9.0.  I just installed SuSE 9.1 on a
different hard drive in the same machine.  Now I'm copying over 
the files I want to keep ...

Notice that I still have a running/untouched SuSE 9.0 system if I have
problems with 9.1.  If I would have wanted to do an upgrade, I would
have copied my running system to the new hard drive and done the upgrade
there.  Again, not touching my good/old/working 9.0 partition.

 - BS