[Gllug] Debian gateways

[Paul Brazier]

> 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).

OK, thanks, I'll try this out soon.

> 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.

Does anyone know how good Linux dynamic partition resizers are these
days and what is recommended? Last time I used one (fips?) it was a bit
experimental and not very user-friendly. If there aren't any I guess I
can always see if my old Partition Magic copy will work in Win2k. IIRC
the one on the Debian install floppies only does destructive
partitioning.

Paul.


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