Re: Laptop strategy: RH7 -> Woody

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (06/05/04 10:19), Mark Gillingham wrote:
> I like the way my old RH7.3 disc is able to identify SUB and NIC on AST 
> Ascentia M Series laptops that I have in our dust bin. Of course I want 
> the ease of Debian's package management too. Is it a good strategy to 
> install a base system using my RH7.3 disc and then switch to Debian? 
> Should I do more than load apt-get? What problems will I encounter?
Suggest that you look at:

        http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

This is the beta testing (sarge) installer that provides H/W detection.

Installing Debian over a Red Hat base will keep you awake nights ;)  The
file structure is different for a start.

Regards

Clive

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