Re: slackware,redhat-debian
Douglas == Douglas L Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and Douglas the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. Douglas The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get Douglas in front of them in person, so wiping the box and Douglas installing from scratch really isn't an option. Douglas Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can put on Douglas dpkg and slowly install debian packages until I borg borg Douglas borg the machines? I assume dpkg is available in Douglas something like a .tar.gz that I can compile and put on Douglas the boxes, and from there I can just start installing Douglas package after package. Douglas Anyone have any hints/suggestions for this? I've kept up Douglas with Linux and the various distributions for some time, Douglas so I know most of the gotchas caused by libc and kernel Douglas upgrades already. Here is what I have done last Sunday. I wanted to upgrade my old slackware that didn't work any longer since I had installed a new version of gcc without reading the manual first. I tried first to use the floppy distribution of Debian. It didn't work since it requires a fresh partition. I had nothing to backup my hd so I didn't want to format the partitions. I try insist and to go to further steps (configurind modules and so on) but all what I managed to do was beeing anable to boot again. So, I decided to install a redhat from december infomagic cdrom (the base system (which brings a 2.0.x kernel) and C and C++ developpement utilities (so that I could compile a new kernel and dselect needs C++ to be compiled.). Then I found a debian distribution 1.2.7 from march pht mo'linux. I took the source of dpkg compile and install it. To be able to do that I had to comment the part of the makefile which call debiandoc-sgml (which was not installed). Then I started to dselect install the base distribution. May be for first installation following the amount of spare disk you have you should dselect emacs (which debian puts in /usr/lib/ rather than in /usr/local/share so that you could have twice the same version of emacs : - installation of ldso was ok - then I went in a circular dependency pb : (libc5 depends on dpkg which depends on libc5). I quit dselect and try to use dpkg --force-depends to install dpkg (it needed sysvinit first to have access to /etc/rc0.d which dkpg needs). Finally I got dpkg.deb installed but it didn't work (dselect was no longer able to find an access method, none were available). So I reinstall dpkg from the source distribution (Now it is recorded as installed so that depencies works and it is working). - i went back on dselect and went on installing : libc was ok ... after bash was installed dselect which probably use /bin/sh didn't work. So I quit dselect and made ldconfig -v and dselect worked again. But it started installation from beginning. In order to speed installation up I made dpkg --configure --pending to configure already unpacked packages and dslect again. Installation was ok with sometimes need for ld-config or dpkg --configure. Then I had to modify /etc/ld.so.conf and /dev/mouse and I had a slackware system patched with a debian one. I wouldn't dare saying I'm using a real debian system since I'm not sure that already existing software might not conflict with new installed debian software. And it brings to ask a question : How can I sweep my hd get rid of old files ? I've already made a perl script based on locate which find duplicated files (for exemple /usr/bin/emacs and /usr/local/bin/emacs). The result of my script looks like : emacs 96/8/6 /usr/bin/emacs emacs 96/9/28 /usr/local/bin/emacs Where the date is the date of last modification of files. Now I need to know the list of files installed by dpkg. Is there a debian command which could tell this. Sorry for being so long. Hope this could help. Gilles Douglas -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
slackware,redhat-debian
I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box and installing from scratch really isn't an option. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can put on dpkg and slowly install debian packages until I borg borg borg the machines? I assume dpkg is available in something like a .tar.gz that I can compile and put on the boxes, and from there I can just start installing package after package. Anyone have any hints/suggestions for this? I've kept up with Linux and the various distributions for some time, so I know most of the gotchas caused by libc and kernel upgrades already. -douglas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slackware,redhat-debian
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: I've got two machines, one slackware 3.0 (I think), and the other is redhat 3.0.3 that I want to move to debian. The problem is that they're too far away and I can't get in front of them in person, so wiping the box and installing from scratch really isn't an option. Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can put on dpkg and slowly install debian packages until I borg borg borg the machines? I assume dpkg is available in something like a .tar.gz that I can compile and put on the boxes, and from there I can just start installing package after package. I've done this on 3 Slackware machines as a temporary solution before I reinstall them totally with a debian distribution. It's not too hard to do but you have to bear in mind that it is not a real debian: the passwd and group files do not match at all, the init scripts won't work, etc. But it works perfectly for the simplest packages (ldso, libc, gdbm, db, dump, flex, perl, etc. And even fvwm95 with a bit of config hacking). I'll post here a summary of the instructions to do this later this week. -- Farzad FARID Administrateur Reseau SGIP - Publicis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
