Ubuntu to Debian

["Brooks R. Robinson" <extremescholar@gmail.com>]

Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,

 

I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago, and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it.  So, I recently purchased an additional hard drive and attempted to put Debian on it (as God intended).  Sarge didn't want to recognize my hardware and Sid just plain crapped out.  I tried to do a Knoppix install, but I don't like their one big partition methodology.  I ended up putting the base "server" install of Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger" on it (which was also quite the pain the the keester, for the record I hate initrd).  So I have a semi-usable system, finally accomplished last night.

 

Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my install the Etch or Sid?  Is it as simple as changing my sources.list, doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade?  I'm sure I'll end up with a bunch of cruft, but I'd rather be on Debian proper than Ubuntu.  Any thoughts would be helpful.

 

Please CC me as I am not on the list.

 

Thanks,

 

Brooks