Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-06 Thread Stein A. Stromme
[Matt Heavner] | With an existing Red Hat installation, if you haev a fast network | connection, I'd recommend using the instructions at | http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade | | I've used the instructions for two installations. I've had to | improvi

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-06 Thread Stein A. Stromme
[Matt Heavner] | With an existing Red Hat installation, if you haev a fast network | connection, I'd recommend using the instructions at | http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade | | I've used the instructions for two installations. I've had to | improvis

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was Bob> easy: Bob> 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat Bob> 2. Swear at systemwhich will no longer boot. Bob> 3. Install Debian. Bob> Hopefully Red Hat has im

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Petzold
kyi wrote: I may be completly insane for doing this, but it makes sense to me. On every system I own I make /home it's own partition (with LVM on my desktop). This way I can completly reinstall the system, different distro if I so wanted, and not loose any of my personal data. - Jayson Garrell

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was Bob> easy: Bob> 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat Bob> 2. Swear at systemwhich will no longer boot. Bob> 3. Install Debian. Bob> Hopefully Red Hat has im

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread kyi
I may be completly insane for doing this, but it makes sense to me. On every system I own I make /home it's own partition (with LVM on my desktop). This way I can completly reinstall the system, different distro if I so wanted, and not loose any of my personal data. - Jayson Garrell

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Maximilian Pascher
Hey Bob, it was exactly the same with SuSE (four or five MONTHS ago) ;-) Max On Tuesday 05 November 2002 23:22, Bob Nielsen wrote: > When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: > > 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat > 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. > 3. Install

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. 3. Install Debian. Hopefully Red Hat has improved since then, but I learned my lesson. Bob On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrot

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Petzold
kyi wrote: I may be completly insane for doing this, but it makes sense to me. On every system I own I make /home it's own partition (with LVM on my desktop). This way I can completly reinstall the system, different distro if I so wanted, and not loose any of my personal data. - Jayson Garrell

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread kyi
I may be completly insane for doing this, but it makes sense to me. On every system I own I make /home it's own partition (with LVM on my desktop). This way I can completly reinstall the system, different distro if I so wanted, and not loose any of my personal data. - Jayson Garrell -- To UNSU

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Maximilian Pascher
Hey Bob, it was exactly the same with SuSE (four or five MONTHS ago) ;-) Max On Tuesday 05 November 2002 23:22, Bob Nielsen wrote: > When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: > > 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat > 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. > 3. Install

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
When I made the transition (six or seven years ago) it was easy: 1. Attempt to upgrade Red Hat 2. Swear at system which will no longer boot. 3. Install Debian. Hopefully Red Hat has improved since then, but I learned my lesson. Bob On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrot

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Petzold
Young-Jin Lee wrote: Hi, all. I am new to Debian and I am looking for some help installing Debian on my Thinkpad laptop. What is the best strategy to replace the existing RedHat Linux with Debian? In other words, I already have linux partitions on my laptop and I have downloaded one of mininum

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
On Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26 -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrote: > > I am new to Debian and I am looking for some help installing Debian > on my Thinkpad laptop. What is the best strategy to replace the > existing RedHat Linux with Debian? In other words, I already have > linux partitions on my laptop and I

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Jeremy Petzold
Young-Jin Lee wrote: Hi, all. I am new to Debian and I am looking for some help installing Debian on my Thinkpad laptop. What is the best strategy to replace the existing RedHat Linux with Debian? In other words, I already have linux partitions on my laptop and I have downloaded one of mininum C

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Matt Heavner
With an existing Red Hat installation, if you haev a fast network connection, I'd recommend using the instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade I've used the instructions for two installations. I've had to improvise a little bit at minor poin

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
On Nov 05, 2002 at 09:26 -0800, Young-Jin Lee wrote: > > I am new to Debian and I am looking for some help installing Debian > on my Thinkpad laptop. What is the best strategy to replace the > existing RedHat Linux with Debian? In other words, I already have > linux partitions on my laptop and I

Re: [Q] From RedHat to Debian

2002-11-05 Thread Matt Heavner
With an existing Red Hat installation, if you haev a fast network connection, I'd recommend using the instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade I've used the instructions for two installations. I've had to improvise a little bit at minor poin