Sluggers, I noticed a short discussion within the last 2 or 3 months on the idea of upgrading from Redhat to Debian non-destructively. I've looked through the archives back to June but can't find it, and googling brings up a score of pages in Hungarian and Finnish. Basically: I've got a debian installation on one disk, only 1.2G, and another larger 6.4 installation using redhat, and with heaps of graphics and a book etc. I'd like to turn the redhat installation into a debian one without moving the large files around. I seem to remember Anand and Gus advising someone that it was possible to do this. Would it be that you install the base.tgz and then simpy use dselect and apt etc? Could it be that simple? Would the debian basic admin tools catalogue the existing binaries and take them into account in dist-upgrading etc? Or would I end up with a bunch of duplicates? Adding to the reason for not wanting to wipe the redhat disk out and start again, is that I've been using the extra space on this disk to store my /var/cache/apt/archives and there are about 200M of woody upgrade packages there which took hours (and dollars) to download. There's a symlink on the deb side pointing to all this stuff. I figure I could use it all on the redhat install. What would happen with for example, WindowMaker which in rh takes its configuration from the users GNUstep directory, while Debian finds looks in /usr/share? It could be chaotic. What success did the original poster of this question have, I wonder. Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
