SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Net Llama!]

On 12/21/03 10:06, Collins wrote:
> over with my old standby ext3.  When installing with an existing linux 
> partition, SUSE always leaves the existing root intact and picks install to 
> any empty partition if it exists.  The only way I could find to overwrite my 
> existing root was to delete the empty partition.  There might be a way around 
> this, but it certainly was not obvious.  System rebuilt ok, and no further 
> problems using ext3, even though I've added/deleted partitions several times.

I'd be very surprised if any distribution did this.

The general assumption is that if you have a formatted partition, you 
want to keep the data, not overwrite it.

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