[LBo] To Upgrade or Make new, that is the question

[Howard Rosen]

Here's how my current SuSE Linux 9.3 is installed.

Linux, on my computer, has its own 60 GB hard drive, /dev/hdb.  Windows
is 
on /dev/hda.

Currently there is an extended 12 GB partition, /dev/hdb2.  That
extended 
partition has 6 logical partitions /, /home, /opt, /usr, /var and swap
that 
occupy slightly less than 10 GB.

I have CDs with SuSE 10.1.  I can either upgrade the current SuSE 9.3
or 
create another extended partition /dev/hdb3 (?) of another 12 GB and
then 
create logical partitions for /, /opt, /usr, /var and reuse the current 
/dev/hdb6 which is /home.  Is that a correct way to reuse the current 
/home?  Anyway, I'm really asking 2 separate questions.  The first one
is 
whether to do an upgrade or install a second version of Linux, SuSE 
10.1.  The second question is about reusing the current partition /home.

If any of the above is not clear, I could provide a df -h dump.

Howard