On 25 Dec 1999 14:47:55 -0700 linuxdevil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to > switch to Debian. Having made the switch for a number of machines (web servers, mail servers, desktops, etc), its not *that* difficult. > Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful > transition? It really depends on how well you've kept your house in order, and your records straight on your RH box. Wht do you do on your HR boxes? What applications do you use? What versions? Are those same versions of those same packages available under Debian? Are older versions available? Does the difference matter to you? How much of your system did your build and configure from sources? How dependency and inter-relation is there between the "critical" compnents of your work environment? Do you know hoe to rebuild that same level of relation from scratch with the raw applications? The move need not be painful. It took me about a half a day per machine including install time to potato, with the larger servers taking just over a week per machine due to gradual staged roll-overs and running both servers in parallel for several days to watch performance and configurations. > Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I started with the ISO image on the Debian FTP site to get the base image installed, and then rolled straight to potato from a local mirror. Given a local mirror on 100base, you can get the entire install done in about 15 or 20 minutes from the initial book. > I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is > the way to go? HTTP is fastest, with FTP and NFS following close behind depending on the performance of the various server stacks (Linux NFS on the server is faster than FTP, Solaris NFS is slower due to Linux NFS shortcomings). -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
