Re: Debian over Caldera
>>>>> "John" == John Plummer <jcp@conecomp.com> writes:
John> Would like to install Debian in place of Caldera on a PC
John> currently dual booting NT and Caldera.
Hey! Great idea! 8-{)>>
John> Caldera installed cleanly, including seeing the cable modem,
John> except for configuring the printer. But is doesn't seem to
John> have the 'open', non-commercial mindset that Debian has.
John> Installing other software packages has incurred problems for
John> which a support maillist like this wasn't found.
Probably costs $80/hr to talk to some kid at Caldera on the phone
too. Though I'd like to have a little money now and then for what I
do for Debian, I can't see it being worth *that* much... (Someone
else besides the kid on the phone probalby gets most of the $80...)
John> The question then is what is the easiest way to install
John> Debian over the Caldera?
The best way as I see it would be to create tar archives of your
personal files and any configurations you've put much work into, then
go ahead and install Debian Potato after re-initializing (wipe it
clean) the disk partition. After it's installed, you can restore
your home directory, CVSROOT, and whatever else you tarchived.
Trying to install over another Linux distro without clearing the
partition first like that is too iffy - it would likely leave cruft
behind, and the file system layout may differ in wierd unpredictable
ways, leading to lots of trouble later on.
Back it up, blow it away, and `dbootstrap' it!
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I am karlheg of deB-ORG. You will be freed.
mailto:karlheg@debian.org (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU Potato Linux 2.2 AMD K6-200(@233) XEmacs-21.2beta
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