help me / To reinstall linux

[online_update]

hello , I got Suse 8.2 installed on my system just linux, I do not have a dual boot machine win/linux.. Im a newbie on linux OS and I would like to try another distro so I downloaded a few for www.linuxiso.org I got redhat, debian and gentoo but I gonna try every one.. LOL.. my problem is do I have to format my HD to install another distro?,, o how I can installed with out that much problem,,?

thanks you all ......

[serz]

It depends...

Are you gonna remove SuSE? If not, you will need to resize it (only if SuSE's partition is taking 100% of your HD).

If want to remove SuSE, then you will have to remove the partition and create a new one for the dsitro that you're gonig to install.

[o0zi]

It's easiest to wipe the entire drive and start with another distro, but if you want to keep SuSe then several distros have partition resizers in their installers, or you could use
parted.

[JCool451]

fdisk always does the trick, most distros include them in the installation.

[mage492]

The installer for the distro should bring up a partitioning device (I KNOW Red Hat does.), which you can use. Remove the Suse partition, then make another one (or more, if you want to set up a multi-partition filesystem) for your new distro. Red Hat's is very simple to use (or you can tell it to partition automatically, and it will ask if you want to blow away what's already on the drive).

[je_fro]

depends on the size of your hd. I usually made a few 10Gb partitions for the "/" of each os, and re-used the swap and boot partitions.