How to format disk drive that has linux?

I just installed 9.0 & need to downgrade to 6.2

[operafan]

I installed RH 9.0 on a pentium 300 - 64MB RAM, so it's an overkill for the hardware. I figured 6.2 could run better on those specs with the full installation, server & all. - Am I right?
So now I would need to format the hardrive that has linux on it & install 6.2.

So how do I go about it - thanks

[jpjones]

If you're using RH 6.2, you should be able to boot it off of the CD, and choose to delete all the existing partitions on the hard drive during installation.

This will effectively delete version 9 and let you run 6.2 in its place. If you have any files in /home (assuming you created a separate partition for /home) which you want to keep, you can choose to keep the /home partition and just delete all other partitions (e.g. / /var etc)

HTH,
JP

[operafan]

Wow that easy, will go & try in the course of today. Thanks.

[SeanW]

You might be better off tuning your RH9 system than playing with 6.2. There are no updates being made for 6.2 anymore.

Sean

[encyclo]

I agree with SeanW - if you use RH6.2, don't whatever you do connect it to the internet. There are a ton of vulnerable packages in there and no updates are available. When you say RH9 is slow, do you mean Gnome/KDE, or the whole system? You could try replacing Gnome/KDE with a lightweight window manager like WindowMaker or XFce - it should run better then.

If you want a faster base system with a 2.2 kernel, try Debian stable (Woody) - it's a fully-updated current distribution that I have running very well on a Pentium 166. Again, use XFce as the desktop rather than Gnome.