Re: Installing Debian on a Red Hat system over the Internet?

To: Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
Cc: Nicolas Parody <nico@nicodev.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing Debian on a Red Hat system over the Internet?
From: Casper Gielen <casper@huiscomputer.homeip.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:20 +0200
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> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Nicolas Parody wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My co-located server at my provider runs, and only supports Red Hat but 
> > I would like to switch to Debian. Is it possible to install Debian on 
> > this system without physical access (The server is in Texas and I am in 
> > Germany)? Has anyone already done this and what is your experience? Or 
> > should I just stick with Red Hat to save me the hassle?
 
1. Create new partitions for Debian. (Preferabbly on another disk).
2. Use debootstrap to install a minimal setup
3. Configure it for network acces
4. Configure you're bootloader to boot from the debian partition.
5. Reboot & Pray.
 

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