Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ] Did you have a look a Lindows? ... and this might be important, too, when mentioning Lindows: Excerpt: - "MICROSOF

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ] > > Did you have a look a Lindows? > > ... and this might be important, too, when mentioning Lindows: Excerpt: - "MICROSOFT BLOCKS DISTRIBUT

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 08:44, Gruessle wrote: > I am new to Linux and for 2 1/2 days I been trying to install Debian. > Well I have the very basics installed but that is really all I got. > > Now I have Redhat and that is easy to install. > Somewhere I read that it is posible to convert a Redhat i

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Hello Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I did all that and it still is not working. > > So next what I did was install knoppix. > > To see if I did the config right. > I don't know how to check the config in knoppix but at the startup > I shaw some things. > The nv video card driver is

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Or is this the right knoppix one XFree86 Config file:/KNOPPIX/etc/X11 -- Gruessle === XFree86 Config === Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard0

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

I just found this file called XFree86config.new in file:/home/knoppix/Desktop/hdb2 is that the knoppix XFree86 config file with the right data? If so whats wrong in the Debian config? Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "XFree86 Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0"

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

I did all that and it still is not working. So next what I did was install knoppix. To see if I did the config right. I don't know how to check the config in knoppix but at the startup I shaw some things. The nv video card driver is correct. Another advatage I have now with knoppis is

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:44:01PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > Now I have Redhat and that is easy to install. Debian is just as easy to install, you just need to read the manual. It's on the CD as well as on debian.org (hit Installation Manual in the co

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:55:42AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/12/03 00:19), Gruessle wrote: > > To: Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:19:00 -0800 >

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On (15/12/03 00:19), Gruessle wrote: > To: Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:19:00 -0800 > Subject: RE: Redhat to Debian conversion > > > I am not sure if we are on the s

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Hello Gruessle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am new to Linux and for 2 1/2 days I been trying to install Debian. > Well I have the very basics installed but that is really all I got. > > Now I have Redhat and that is easy to install. > Somewhere I read that it is posible to convert a Redhat i

RE: Redhat to Debian conversion

Message- > From: Lucas Albers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:55 PM > To: Gruessle > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Redhat to Debian conversion > > > Debian is harder to setup then redhat. > I've used both. > Just stay w

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

On Monday 15 December 2003 12:55 am, Lucas Albers wrote: > Wish I could figure out how to install discover within the installer, so I > don't have the pry the case open to see what network card it has. That's a simple one... boot a Knoppix live CD - see what it detects, and if it's right, use th

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

Debian is harder to setup then redhat. I've used both. Just stay with redhat, you'll really appreciate debian after you've been doing things for awhile. At first the Debian way will seem stupid. Then some day you'll go aha, I see why they do it this way. I think Debian rocks, but the hard part for

Re: Redhat to Debian?

Hi, On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:59:46AM -0500, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > Is there a HOWTO on how to go from > a redhat system to Debian system? If > so, couls someone point me to it. I could find > anything at the Debian site. > Thanks. > Wayne I think someone else already mentioned major configur

Re: Redhat to Debian?

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:32:13AM -0500, alex wrote: > What do you mean by "how to go from a redhat system to Debian'? Do you > mean switch to Debian > while RedHat is operating? Be more explicit. Now, that would be cool indeed, but I gather it would require integrating massive amount of depen

Re: Redhat to Debian?

At 01:03 PM 3/5/02, Paolo Falcone wrote: that Debian has the stable, testing, frozen --> coming soon I hope, and the unstable trees There is not going to be an official frozen this time around, instead they are doing a multi part freeze on testing. They freeze one section, work the kinks out,

Re: Redhat to Debian?

Be nice guys, advocate not procrastinate. Primary differences I have encountered: 1. /etc/modules Here you can list modules you want loaded, ie Drivers 2. /etc/network/interfaces Here you configure your interfaces. See "man 5 interfaces",See below for a quick example. 3. dpkg / apt No RP

Re: Redhat to Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 infotechsys wrote: >Hi, >Is there a HOWTO on how to go from >a redhat system to Debian system? If >so, couls someone point me to it. I could find >anything at the Debian site. HOWTO? I find it weird, but you won't really need a HOWTO in going from a

Re: Redhat to Debian?

What do you mean by "how to go from a redhat system to Debian'? Do you mean switch to Debian while RedHat is operating? Be more explicit. infotechsys wrote: Hi, Is there a HOWTO on how to go from a redhat system to Debian system? If so, couls someone point me to it. I could find anything at

Re: Redhat to Debian?

Patrick Kirk writes: > Kinda hard to give a long version of this so hrer's the short and easy > way: > > fsck the hdd and install Debian. > > Of course you may want to backup some data first. Its wise keeping a > Red HAt partition to boot into...you'll never use it oince installation > i

Re: Redhat to Debian?

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 12:59, infotechsys wrote: > Hi, > Is there a HOWTO on how to go from > a redhat system to Debian system? If > so, couls someone point me to it. I could find > anything at the Debian site. Kinda hard to give a long version of this so hrer's the short and easy way: fsck the hd

Re: RedHat to Debian migration

Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim said: > Hello: > > Someone asked me about potential problems of migrating > from RedHat to Debian, especially for script applications. > > Based on my own experience, I had some problems with the > default "vi" (nvi) and "awk" (mawk). Both problems can > by solved through /e

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

PST) > From: B. Dragoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server > > > --- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > &g

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at > 500. Debian > packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will > dynamically allocate > it with adduser, which will never trample over an > existing user, and it > doesn't matter what user id it p

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging > system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be > better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too. Debian goes through so much to

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

Ethan Benson wrote: > uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging system/daemons etc. > you won't likely have a problem but it would be better to migrate to > debian policy anyway. It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at 500. Debian packages that want an id in the 100-999 range w

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

--- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > One idea might be to do a search and replace on the > passwd file, placing a > 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That > would necessitate > changing the ids on the user's files. I had a > similar situation and wrote > a Perl sc

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

> Ethan Benson writes: eb> if you extract the home directories after creating the new user eb> accounts they should get the new ownership properly as GNU tar is eb> fairly smart about this sort of thing. Actually, a tar file (according to POSIX) can have the uid only represented

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

I have seen a situation where a system that began on Slackware was migrated to Debian years ago. Several Debian upgrades have been done since then. There are user ids between 500 and 100 and there hasn't been any problems. Hopefully this isn't an accident going somewhere to happen. One idea might

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote: > > My main issue is getting user accounts over. It would > be very easy to copy the lines from my passwd, shadow, > and group files over to the potato box, but I'm > concerned about the fact that RH begins uids with 500, > while Debian b

Re: Redhat to Debian: migrating a multi-user server

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:06:26PM -0800, B. Dragoo wrote: :My questions, then, are these: is there anything :about this situation that will make Debian break? Are :there debianized packages that rely on having normal :(i.e., non-system user) uids above 1000? Is there :anything I would be ver

Re: Redhat to Debian

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:54:48AM -0800 or thereabouts, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > <..snipped..> > In my own case, I use chroot to mount a 'debian jail' under a working > RedHat system, while configuring Debian. When I was close to ready, I > booted with either a boot floppy or lilo prompt o

Re: Redhat to Debian

> I recently read a sort of HOWTO for converting a linux redhat >=6.0 into > a debian 2.2 (potato). > I just couldn't find the document again. > Could someone give me the address where I could find it ? > > Thanks in advance, > Nicolas. I have recently made a system with dual-boot Debian 2.

Re: Redhat to Debian

on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:09:43AM +0100, Nicolas SABOURET ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I recently read a sort of HOWTO for converting a linux redhat >=6.0 into > a debian 2.2 (potato). > I just couldn't find the document again. > Could someone give me the address where I could find it ? Never he