Its been a good long while since I tried anything like this. So let me try to describe what I want to do and see if anyone can coach me a bit.
I'm running a linux OS now and have been for yrs, I want to switch whole hog to debian, which I've also done, but yrs ago. I don't want to shut down my working OS any longer than necessary. I'm thinking I could start building up a debian install in a virtual machine. Get it working in all basics and get all the `must have' software running. My `must have' isn't terribly long, but includes sendmail, emacs, apache, X. A working mail setup, but just a single user type with fetchmail, sendmail and mail reader (emacs+gnus). Lots of network related utils like nmap, tcptraceroute. But if I have a working mail setup, the rest can come along later. Once all that is working wouldn't I be able to move the whole thing onto the existing linux desktop by doing a network install of debian, formatting whatever space then use dd or maybe something more modern to plop the fleshed out OS from the virutal machine onto the bare install `/' disk. Or any other or better way to get this done. Anyone here that can offer a brief outline of how to proceed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
