Hello,
a little correction:-)
> 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it
>as default (but still leave SuSE section).
Leave suse as default. Run lilo and afterwards lilo -R "debianimage".
Reboot.
Go throu Step 8 till 13.
> 14. If it doesn't come up -- ask the ISP to
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:13, Michael Holzt wrote:
[installing Debian from the outside]
Yo!
I'll be doing exactly this in a while, I have already tested this
procedure at home and am just waiting until I can do it for real. Your
guidelines seem sensible, however, I feel I did it even easier:
1. c
I'm not subscribed to this list, so i hope my message gets through.
I heard about this Thread in IRC.
I managed in the past to convert a 1&1 Root-Server (a cheap server
product here in germany) on the fly from SuSE to Debian. In theory
you could just boot the Rescue-System (which will start some k
If you have only one big partition for suse, maybe you can use parted (you can
search for it at freshmeat) or other tools to reduce the partition. Then you
can follow the steps below.. but try the whole process on a local machine.
On Wednesday 07 August 2002 18:15, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> On We
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:57:24PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
[...]
> > In some ways trying to use the sa
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:57:24PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd recommend using the swap
> > > partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel f
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
> >
> > I'd recommend using the swap
> > partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel from suse.
> > You know it boots the box, so use it again.
>
> Er, I meant
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote:
>
> I'd recommend using the swap
> partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel from suse.
> You know it boots the box, so use it again.
Er, I meant the _currently_ running kernel. Using a known good kernel
cuts down the n
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:00:25AM +0200, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:21:45PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote:
> > Thanks for the answer (to the other, too), but still there are two
> > points:
> > 1. Only one big partition (30GB) mountet as /
> > 2. Noone will go to th
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:21:45PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote:
> Thanks for the answer (to the other, too), but still there are two
> points:
> 1. Only one big partition (30GB) mountet as /
> 2. Noone will go to the terminal for me, which means
> either it comes up or -- hell
On Mit, 07 Aug 2002, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:55:26PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote:
> > my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from
> > an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It
> > is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he
>
On Mit, 07 Aug 2002, Emilio Brambilla wrote:
> hello,
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
>
> [...]
> > 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it
> >as default (but still leave SuSE section).
> > 8. Make sure you have "prompt" and "timeout" options in lilo.co
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:46:41PM +0200, Emilio Brambilla wrote:
> using lilo -R may help you at point 14
That's a brilliant suggestion. Thanks!
Marcin
hello,
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
[...]
> 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it
>as default (but still leave SuSE section).
> 8. Make sure you have "prompt" and "timeout" options in lilo.conf.
> 9. Run "lilo".
using lilo -R may help you at point 14
Florian Bantner wrote:
> Ahoy friendly Debian fellows,
>
> my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from
> an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It
> is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he
> tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want
>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:55:26PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote:
> my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from
> an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It
> is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he
> tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I
Ahoy friendly Debian fellows,
my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from
an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It
is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he
tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want
Debian to take over. The problem:
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