On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 05:19:55PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > > [ I posted this to debian-devel, but should have posted it here...] > > I've got a friend who's finally going to get around to trying out > Linux, and the machine he's got available is a 7500 with RedHat > installed. I'd like for him to get started with Debian, and I'm > willing to go to some trouble to get the machine converted over. > > I wanted to see how much trouble this was likely to be, and where I > need to start. What pieces do we still lack?
The easiest way will be if he has a free partition. Untar the base tarball which is probably lying in incoming somewhere onto that partition, set it as root (Use nvsetenv boot-file 'whereverkernelis root=/dev/sdxx'). Then mount the partition with the .debs, or fetch them by hand - is ftp in the tarball? Should be fairly clean. Kinda. Hopefully, an installer is in the works... > FWIW Dan "drow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" had spoken to me a while > back about this, but mail to that address bounces now. Sorry, that internet provider belly-upped on me. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to force me to read it in pine :() Dan
