Steve Rauch I would like to keep /home, /usr, /usr/local etc. on partition 3 and put root and admin directories on partition 4.
I have perused the draft installation manual and have not found information addressing a replacement installation. I know this topic was discussed a few months ago, but that discussion is not archived on the current mailing list archive. What directories do I mount when installing Debian, and what Slackware files and directories must I remove? and should that be done prior to the installation? Or what the case be for a completely new install? Hmm... Here's a rough idea of what I'd try to do: (*) make a backup of my system. On partion 4, install debian system, including the following from the shell: /u (empty directory) mount point for partition 3 /home soft link to /u/home /usr soft link to /u/usr Then I'd bring up the system and start installing packages. Once I was done, I'd probably try and compose some sort of list of left over files from slackware that haven't been replaced. Something like: cd /tmp find /usr >slakfiles dpkg --search '*' | cut -f2 -d' ' >debfiles cat slakfiles debfiles debfiles | sort | uniq -u >extrafiles I'd go over these by hand and try and divide them up into categories -- "delete with impunity", "should be in debian", "big mystery", ... -- Raul
