Debian installation instructions [was: Installing Debian over a Suse system]
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. have a look at http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install for x86 installation instructions or at http://www.debian.de/releases/stable/ to select platform and language. debian 2.2 potato (the stable release) uses kernel 2.2 and xfree 3.3.6. if you really need /want to user kernel 2.4 and xfree 4 you can use unofficial debian packages for both or upgrade your system to woody (the testing release) or sid (the unstable release). but a system upgrade is an irreversable upgrade. once you find out sid is too unstable for you it's too late. yours martin -- GnuPG 1024D/3E8DCCC0 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0 work: factline Krisper Fabro Harnoncourt OEG (www.factline.com)
Re: Installing Debian over a Suse system
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. There was a guy a couple years ago who upgraded a Red Hat system to Debian without rebooting it (!). He wrote down what he did and put it on a web page somewhere; maybe that will give you some ideas. I think the simplest way to change distributions will be to (a) back up /home and all of your tweaks, (b) do a clean install, formatting the drive and everything, and (c) restore your /home and put your tweaked software in /usr/local. Hope that helps. Rob -- If the meanings of true and false were switched, then this sentence would not be false.
Re: Installing Debian over a Suse system
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:23:45AM -0400, Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. There was a guy a couple years ago who upgraded a Red Hat system to Debian without rebooting it (!). He wrote down what he did and put it on a web page somewhere; maybe that will give you some ideas. I didn't quite do it that slickly, but I converted a RH system to Debian live over about a six week period (I _like_ having working systems) without losing any RH functionality over the transition period. The trick is chroot. In my case, I carved out an installation partition for Debian, and booted an install disk to get the base system installed. Booting back into RH, I spawned a chrooted shell in the Debian partition, added packages, and configured the system, until everything looked hunky dory. Did the odd boot into Debian to make sure things worked as desired. When I was ready to make the switch, I first changed default boot to the Debian side, copied appropriate /home trees under my Debian equivalents (single-user system, mostly my own stuff), and remounted my /usr/local partion under Debian. When I was convinced that was all working properly, I blew away the RH system partitions and grafted the space onto my Debian system. It was a slow, conservative process, but I made the switch with only a few hours' downtime (backups, repartitioning, and restores), and had an assured, working, system the entire time. The hot install mode involves simply copying the Debian base image wholesale onto a live partition, allowing you to skip a couple of reboots. While a slick hat trick, I don't think this is either necessary or preferred. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpWEnpjjiJw0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Installing Debian over a Suse system
Hello, I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. The Suse system is tweaked significantly, with kernel 2.4.0 and a lot of other changes. Any suggestions? Einar Jørgensen Work Package Manager TMI Tlf: +47 3228 7608 / mob:9222 7540 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
