[Gllug] Debian gateways

[Timothy Coggins]

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:40, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 1/31/02, 1:04:02 PM, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote 
> regarding RE: [Gllug] Debian gateways:
> 
> > I think if you are doing a floppy/network install it seems that you have
> > to go through loads of floppies before you get one that boots correctly.
> 
> It depends on the quality of both the drive and the disks.  Cheap kit on 
> either count will cause problems.
> 
> > I should be getting a broadband connection shortly and I think this is
> > where the main advantage of Debian lies so I may change my RH7.1 over to
> > Debian once I get sorted. Not sure how easy this will be to keep my
> > existing relevant /etc config files and /home (they are all on one
> > partition). I guess you can have two different Linux distros dual
> > booting while you change over?
> 
> To be safe you need to treat each configuration file in /etc as a special 
> case, comparing the old RH one with the new Debian one and editing 
> carefully. As version numbers and file locations will be different in 
> many cases you can't simply copy things across.
> 
> As for /home - make a tarball of your user account's home directory and 
> when you create your new system untar it into a subdirectory of your new 
> home directory.  Move all the user stuff down into ~/, then again go 
> through the config files one at a time.  It's usually best to try 
> starting up the app in question with Debian defaults, seeing what kind of 
> config file it generates and then comparing (or comparing with the sample 
> config file if none is generated for you).
> 
> One thing to watch for is that Debian treats .bashrc and .bash_profile 
> differently than Red Hat (RH simply get that one wrong, IMO, as several 
> Gllug-ers have discovered to their annoyance, if you check the archives).
> 
> If you had created a separate home partition you could have gotten away 
> with just re-using it, so long as you were careful with the Debian 
> installation. Personally, I always split /home and /usr out, /var as well 
> if I have space (and who doesn't have space in these days of 160gig 
> drives?)  and keep the / partition quite small.
> 
> On this machine (work workstation) I also have /opt and /usr/local 
> partitions.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
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