[PLUG] update strategies/partition issue

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

I have been using RH 7.3.  It' s been stable and fine but is starting to 
show its age vis-a-vie stuff I' d like to try but can't without a newer 
distro.  (Newest frustration is installing gnucash; can't install newest 
and distro version fails dependencies because the dependencies are newer 
than it expects.)

I have Mandrake 9.1, Slackware 9.1, Suse 9 (a live eval CD; don't know 
whether it will install to the HD), but want to try the hardware 
optimized version of Gentoo (need to download).

I have never updated the same machine with a new distro (only fresh 
installs).  I only have 3 partitions: /, /boot and /swap.  Is there 
anyway to update without loosing home directories, /opt stuff, etc.?

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