I think it is time to switch distos... Right now I have a Win 98 partition and a RH 8 partition. Since the computer is running a web server, I don't want the install to run long. I want to run Debian, only. Now, I want to keep the current home directories, and the content that the web server is serving... I have a few different ways to go about this.
I could D/L the files needed for installing debian and a back up of the /home and of the /var/ directory on what is now the Win 98 side; I could burn the the /home directory and /var/ directory to a CD, and burn the ISO starting with a clean HD; or I could do some dual boot that doesn't make sense because I'll only use Linux on this computer (and I don't want to touch read hat again... I'm tired of things not being where they should be).
So, which is fastest? Which is recomended? Which would you and why?
I could D/L the files needed for installing debian and a back up of the /home and of the /var/ directory on what is now the Win 98 side; I could burn the the /home directory and /var/ directory to a CD, and burn the ISO starting with a clean HD; or I could do some dual boot that doesn't make sense because I'll only use Linux on this computer (and I don't want to touch read hat again... I'm tired of things not being where they should be).
So, which is fastest? Which is recomended? Which would you and why?