OS replacement

[Ice-9]

In a previous thread I stated that I was gonna  replace SuSE with Red Hat.
Now, tomorrow there's this huge lan-party I'm goping to so I waited patiently and didn't risk f**king everything up just days before the lanpparty.

Monday next week however SuSE will be history on my machine.
Now, how would I best do this?
If I simply boot win2K, wipe the partitions and then do an fdisk /mbr, will I completely get rid of the LILO entry and still be able to boot Windows?

I know there will be no problem re-installing Red Hat once I have the "SuSE" space made available, but here I also have a question.
RH goes for Grub as bootloader, my feeling was that LILO does a good job and I don' see why I would go for Grub (certainly since I've seen the number of posts around the web from people who are not able to get the bootloader to "see" Windows), should I stick with LILO or is there a good reason to choose Grub?

Thanks.

[voidmain]

You don't have to boot into Windows or SuSe. Just boot the RedHat CDs, do a custom install, use "Disk Druid" to select the same partitions you used for SuSe but have it do a format.

[Ice-9]

Thanks void main, but won't there be any problems with the bootloader if I do it this way?

I had my share of problems with this when I installed Mandrake over SuSE a while ago.
I had to fdisk everything and start all over again because I wasn't able to boot anything anymore.

[voidmain]

No, RedHat will reinstall the boot loader (as long as you don't tell it not to).

[Calum]

there shouldn't be any problems. if you are dual booting, just leave the partitions alone that you want to keep and format everything else. not sure how red hat does it, but as you know in mandrake you'd just shift the partition sizes around of the ones you want to keep (or leave them alone if you like their size), make sure all the mount points are right and then on the next screen, put a check in the box next to each one you want to reformat.

[Ice-9]

Allright, thanks guys.