Kent West wrote:
Jay Zach wrote:
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Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
purchased an additional hard drive and attempted to put Debian on it (as
God intended). Sarge didn't want to recognize my hardware and Sid just
plain crapped out. I tried to do a Knoppix install, but I don't like
their one big partition methodology. I ended up putting the base
"server" install of Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger" on it (which was
also quite the pain the the keester, for the record I hate initrd). So
I have a semi-usable system, finally accomplished last night.
Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my
install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list,
doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll end
up with a bunch of cruft, but I'd rather be on Debian proper than
Ubuntu. Any thoughts would be helpful.
Please CC me as I am not on the list.
Thanks,
Brooks
If you have your /home directory mounted on a separate partition (I
HIGHLY
recommend this), you can simply install debian, and mount your ubuntu
/home as
your /debian home.
Except that he's already stated that neither Sarge nor Sid have been
agreeable to being installed on his hardware.
As I understand it, Brooks, Ubuntu is close enough to Debian that a
conversion is possible. Yes, edit your sources.list and do an
update/dist-upgrade; you may have to uninstall some stuff along the way
and then reinstall it. Since it's a new install, and you have nothing to
lose, just go for it. The worst that can happen is that you'll cause
some sort of time-space implosion and destroy the universe as we know
it. But it'll probably go a lot smoother than that.
Mark Shuttleworth showed me a nifty trick with aptitude when doing a
dist-upgrade. From memory, in interactive mode press 'M' and it will
uninstall dependencies; then upgrade. It saves a lot of bandwidth on
the upgrade. I haven't tried it myself and so YMMV.
Regards
Clive
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