Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamalprasad@verizon.net>]

    "Russell" == Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> writes:

    Russell> I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd
    Russell> like to upgrade to sarge.  But I had some trouble with
    Russell> the sarge install cd, which I have so far been unable to
    Russell> resolve.  (See Message-ID:
    Russell> <878y8h7i25.fsf@thelonious.dyndns.org>, subject line was
    Russell> "sarge install help on 9600MP")

I can't find the article - do you have a link?

    Russell> So I would like to ask: are there any nifty ways to
    Russell> install sarge from a running, non-debian system?

You can deboostrap the install from the running system. See for
example

http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html

and

http://www.burgettsys.com/stories/59455/

for some ideas, and improvise from there.

I had to this recently because the installer would not boot my
hardware, and I used a Gentoo live CD (which did boot) to install so I
had a host system on which to build a patched Debian kernel.

Not knowing what your exact problem is I can't really recommend this
step unless it is the only way out. But it works ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal