On 10301 March 1977, Yassen Damyanov wrote:
> Couple of years experience with Gentoo but none with Debian. Need to
> migrate an AMD-64 server running Gentoo Linux to Debian AMD-64.
> Services:
> apache2,
> postfix + filters,
> ftp over TLS (vsftpd or proftpd),
> IMAPS (Courier-IMAP)
> SVN
>
> My questions:
> (1) Is the AMD64 port of Debian usable for a production server?
Yes.
> (3) If (1) is to be answered with a definite 'yes', then what would you
> recommend as steps to *remotely* convert the gentoo box into Debian amd64?
Fresh install of course.
For remote: debootstrap a small thing in a swap partition, reboot in
that, debootstrap the real system on your root. (Or if you have a backup
system bootable like some hosters offer use that).
Search with google, you arent the first to switch from [other_distri] to
Debian.
--
bye Joerg
<elmo> I'm James Troup, long term source of all evil in Debian. you may
know me from such debian-devel-announce gems as "Serious
Problems With ...."
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