On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:01:50PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I have a RedHat 6.0 box, my laptop actually. I've converted all my other > boxes to debian. I'm almost ready to convert it, but I'd rather not nuke > it out right. Is there a way to "convert" it from RedHat to Debian in a > clean manner?
I did this last fall by clearing out a suitably large ( ~1GB) partition, creating a chroot jail, installing debian from this shell, and massaging the installation for a week or so before letting it become my default. After a bit of time spent dual booting, I nuked RH, preserving /home and /usr/local, though truth to tell I didn't keep much of the latter, preferring to make a clean start. Creating a sane partition scheme after all of this was a bit of a chore, but I managed without having to do any tape backup/restore with some clever juggling. Didn't lose any bits that I didn't plan on losing.... With very few exceptions, the chroot trick worked like a charm. Giving credit where it's due, I'd picked it up from Rob Walker at VA Linux. Apparently the Debian team had used the same trick on a box there to get a build environment under a RH install. -- Karsten M. Self ([email protected]) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html Mailing list: "subscribe sas-linux" to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
