partition and advised
that everyting would be lost. Thus I insatlled Debian on what I hope is a
clean file system. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: Slackware --> Debian (?)
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:03:25AM -0600, clemsurf wrote:
> I have an old copy of Slackware installed. It uses kernel 2.0.27.
>
> Snce I have not had a lot of time to investigate Linux I am still
> somewhat of a novice. (Having a relatively good command of the language
> I never use "newbie").
I have an old copy of Slackware installed. It uses kernel 2.0.27.
Snce I have not had a lot of time to investigate Linux I am still
somewhat of a novice. (Having a relatively good command of the language
I never use "newbie"). I do, however, want to know if it is possible,
or even desireable, t
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
What you can do is this:
1) Move every binary you think you should need from /usr/bin,/bin to
/usr
-K
Kevin Poorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do the Free-Ride
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Holden Caulfield wrote:
I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this question.
I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of it so I can
install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there
(The question was: "I have slackware; want debian; how reformat?")
Ans: The debian installation process will take care of all that
for you. You can repartition your drives -- if you want a different
mix of OSes than what you had with slack. Remember to back up anything
you created: songs, scripts,
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
When you install Debian, just inst
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 04:10:06PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
Creating a new file system on a pa
Holden Caulfield wrote:
Please don't apologize, that's what this group is for. During the
Debian installation, you'll have the opportunity to re-partition
your hard disk; if you choose to do so, you'll effectively "DOS
format" your disk. Even if you don't, one of the steps in the
installation wil
So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary
to format the drive? What will happen to slackware? Will it just be
replaced by Debian? Or will it just install side-by-side to
Slackware.
Holden C.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Holden Caulfield wrote:
> I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance of this
> question. I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to get rid of
> it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there a LINUX equivalent to the DOS
>
I am very new to LINUX so I apologize for the insignificance
of this question. I have Slackware installed on my computer and want to
get rid of it so I can install Debian 1.3.1 rev. Is there a LINUX
equivalent to the DOS format command or is there some special process I need to
follow in
I'm finally upgrading a 2-years-ancient Linux system, running
an old Slackware 1.2 (or so) distribution. Back then Slackware's
default mail agent was smail; since then they've switched to sendmail.
Slackware 3 was pre-installed on the new machine I bought, so I
thought I'd try using it as the bas
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