Re: Redhat to Debian?

[Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>]

Patrick Kirk writes:
 > Kinda hard to give a long version of this so hrer's the short and easy
 > way:
 > 
 > fsck the hdd and install Debian.
 > 
 > Of course you may want to backup some data first.  Its wise keeping a
 > Red HAt partition to boot into...you'll never use it oince installation
 > is complete but you may need if installation of networking goes awry and
 > you want to send messages asking for help.

Not only that, but it's a good idea to keep the old RH partition
around so you can get all your network settings, configuration files
(your whole /etc tree).  If you have a separate /home partition, you
can also just reuse it (possibly changing UID and GID as you want).

If you have one big partition, you can just use resize2fs (after doing 
a backup, of course).  I seem to remember that you can get the number
of blocks from various partition management programs.

Andrew.