On Thursday 30 August 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:19:06AM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > > I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to > > switch it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that > > someone could point me to? > > > > (Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which > > package a program is in looks pretty cute and helpful :) > > > > Thanks, > > Britton > > Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to > Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the > Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn't be able to > help you). Too many things are done differently between the two > operating systems, for example, while Debian uses root to do many > tasks by default Ubuntu has no true root user and instead uses sudo.
While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics, there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as a root account on any Debian release. The only difference is it doesn't have a password on setup. I used: sudo passwd (or maybe it was sudo passwd root) and created a password for root and can use my root account on my Ubuntu workstation just like I do the root account on any of my Debian servers. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
