Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration
On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:34, Lee Whalen wrote:
> Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So,
> I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is
> already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6),
> running a few production apps (Apache with a handful of VHosts, postfix,
> a ticketing system we use called GForge and it's attendant Postgres
> database, and a few NFS mounts). The company I work for no longer wants
> to pay the HeadRat extortion fee just to be able to download package
> updates and whatnot, so I am tasked with migrating all of our HeadRat
> servers over to Debian.
>
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>
> For those of you who managed to read this far (go YOU!) does that
> sound feasible, or am I doing far, far too much work?
>
> Many thanks for your assistance!
> --Lee
Lee,
You might want to take a look at:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall
for doing a chroot install. I have never done this, but it might be a useful
method for getting Debian installed with minimal interruption to your current
system.
John Schmidt
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