Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread s. keeling
Eduardo Trápani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I > have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in > return. > > I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate my debian > environment in th

Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Install a base-only system on the new machine. [...] Thanks! But, I know I'm missing other things. The more I investigate, the harder it seems. For the DBs, you'll need to export and import them, being the safest way. The only packages that are platform independent are the "all" packages,

Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 13:29 -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I > have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in > return. > > I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate my debia

Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I > have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in > return. > > I'm not sure what

Re: Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I > have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in > return. > > I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate m

Migration from Debian/powerpc to Debian/i386

2006-12-30 Thread Eduardo Trápani
Hi, I'm currently using Debian on an iMac G5. Everything is alright but I have to hand the computer over to another user and I will get a PC in return. I'm not sure what would be the best path to follow to recreate my debian environment in the new machine. I cannot repackage packages becaus