Re: Converting a *live* Fedora box to Debian
Hi Joe
Em Sáb, 2005-02-05 às 04:42 -0800, Joe Emenaker escreveu:
> Quick scenario... we're planning on switching from in-house T1 web
> hosting to an outside hosting company. The other company gives us full
> root access on a box to do whatever we want on it.
>
> Problem is... it is installed with base Fedora Core 2 and I'd prefer Debian.
>
> What I'm wondering is: is it possible to convert the machine completely
> from Fedora to Debian *all* through an ssh session, without ever having
> access to the box. I think it can be done. I'm experimenting with a raw
> Fedora install in a VMWare window (so that I can start all over easily
> if I need to), and it's surprisingly easy to get things to the point
> where I can run "apt-get update" and run dselect and pick what I want.
> Once I got to that point, dselect immediately marked all of the
> mandatory packages for install and was able to download them all.
>
> I'm currently working out some glitches with missing dpkg install
> scripts... but those are small issues. Once that's all done, all that
> should be left is to clean up the old RedHat config files.
>
> But, before I go much further, does anyone know of any docs on how to do
> this? Or does anybody know of some real deal-killer roadblocks that I'm
> going to run into?
>
Take a look at http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/debtakeover/
I thinks thatś exactly what you want.
Have a nice
> - Joe
>
>
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