On 11/04/14 13:30, Stephen Barr wrote: > I have been using Ubuntu for several years now but all of a sudden it > has begun locking up, sometimes several times a day. Very annoying, > especially when it fouls up file names. I have a lot of work to do on my > website and this is driving me crazy. Can I download Debian, delete > Ubuntu and have Debian accept the Ubuntu files?
Unless I misunderstand your meaning, no. What you can do is wipe Ubuntu and install Debian while preserving your home directory data, and reusing many of your system and user-space customisations, while installing as many of the Debian versions of the Ubuntu apps as possible. This is easiest if you have /home on a separate partition but always possible even if you RAID or have a simple single slice install. Please provide the following information and we'll give you a step-by-step guide to the process. 1. How have you setup Ubuntu? (lvm, luks, disk and slice details). 2. How much free space do you have on the box? 3. What backup choices do you have? (external hard drives, USB Keys, CD/DVDs, networked box/es, and how much space). 4. Which version of Ubuntu is installed. 5. What are the details of your box? (lspci, mb make and model) > Sounds simple (I hope). Relatively. It can be done safely, which is the most important thing. Should take you about two hours to do (depending on how much data needs to be backed up and how much you'd customised your Ubuntu install. > Thank you, Stephen > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53476bcb.5090...@gmail.com
