on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:27:31AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are there any guides, etc, in the moving from RedHat over to Debian? > > I'm using RH 6.2, but am seriously looking at leaving that distro.
My own solution was to install Debian underneath an operating RH system
by way of a chroot jail. It's an idea I got from Rob Walker, then of VA
$WHATEVER, who'd told me of a chroot Debian environment which had been
set up on a VA server for the Debian team.
In my case I did a shutdown after carving out a partition for the
install, installed a base Debian system, *didn't* select packages or
install LILO, and booted back to RH. Then it was:
$ cd /debian-install
$ chroot . bin/bash
...at that point, this particular shell thinks it's in a Debian system.
Install additional packages, test things out. When the process was
sufficiently advanced, I checked by booting between systems, then when
satisfied, transferred /home and /usr/local to mount under Debian, and
gradually blew away the RH system, reclaiming space.
Not the fastest switchover, but I _always_ had at least one functioning
install.
Peace.
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