Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Roland Dunn
Hello, Wonder if anyone can help. I've just moved from RedHat to Debian and have a couple of queries: - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat? - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:22, Roland Dunn wrote: Hello, Wonder if anyone can help. I've just moved from RedHat to Debian and have a couple of queries: - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat?

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-17, Roland Dunn penned: - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat? I don't know about this. - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop apache,

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Roland Dunn: # - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop # apache, samba, etc where is this on Debian? /etc/init.d # - Also on RedHat you could use chkconfig to setup such a script to restart # on

Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread linuxdevil
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way to go?

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread John Kerr Anderson
I myself have just recently started to switch from Redhat to Debian. I have found that Debian has a lot of useful features, but with those is complexity. It seems to me as harder to setup than Redhat. I have tried the ftp install and it is very good, but still slow especially if you would be

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread J C Lawrence
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

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Howard Mann
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 02:47:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have

Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian

1999-12-26 Thread Shaul Karl
I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is the way