On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: > I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is > redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're > too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box > and installing from scratch really isn't an option. > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can put on dpkg and slowly > install debian packages until I borg borg borg the machines? I assume > dpkg is available in something like a .tar.gz that I can compile and put > on the boxes, and from there I can just start installing package after > package.
I've done this on 3 Slackware machines as a temporary solution before I reinstall them totally with a debian distribution. It's not too hard to do but you have to bear in mind that it is not a real debian: the passwd and group files do not match at all, the init scripts won't work, etc. But it works perfectly for the simplest packages (ldso, libc, gdbm, db, dump, flex, perl, etc. And even fvwm95 with a bit of config hacking). I'll post here a summary of the instructions to do this later this week. -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
