Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-14 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 15:13, Michael Holzt wrote: [installing Debian from the outside] Yo! I'll be doing exactly this in a while, I have already tested this procedure at home and am just waiting until I can do it for real. Your guidelines seem sensible, however, I feel I did it even easier: 1.

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-14 Thread Markus Werner
Hello, a little correction:-) 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it as default (but still leave SuSE section). Leave suse as default. Run lilo and afterwards lilo -R debianimage. Reboot. Go throu Step 8 till 13. 14. If it doesn't come up -- ask the ISP to go

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-08 Thread Nate Campi
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:57:24PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: I'd recommend using the swap partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel from suse.

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-08 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:57:24PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: [...] In some ways trying to use the same

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-08 Thread Henning Heyne
If you have only one big partition for suse, maybe you can use parted (you can search for it at freshmeat) or other tools to reduce the partition. Then you can follow the steps below.. but try the whole process on a local machine. On Wednesday 07 August 2002 18:15, Marcin Sochacki wrote: On

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-08 Thread Michael Holzt
I'm not subscribed to this list, so i hope my message gets through. I heard about this Thread in IRC. I managed in the past to convert a 11 Root-Server (a cheap server product here in germany) on the fly from SuSE to Debian. In theory you could just boot the Rescue-System (which will start some

Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Florian Bantner
Ahoy friendly Debian fellows, my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want Debian to take over. The problem:

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:55:26PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote: my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Bantner wrote: Ahoy friendly Debian fellows, my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want Debian

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Emilio Brambilla
hello, On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Marcin Sochacki wrote: [...] 7. In SuSE's lilo.conf add a section with Debian's boot and set it as default (but still leave SuSE section). 8. Make sure you have prompt and timeout options in lilo.conf. 9. Run lilo. using lilo -R may help you at point 14 14. If

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:46:41PM +0200, Emilio Brambilla wrote: using lilo -R may help you at point 14 That's a brilliant suggestion. Thanks! Marcin

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Florian Bantner
On Mit, 07 Aug 2002, Marcin Sochacki wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 07:55:26PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote: my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he tells

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Nate Campi
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:00:25AM +0200, Marcin Sochacki wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:21:45PM +0200, Florian Bantner wrote: Thanks for the answer (to the other, too), but still there are two points: 1. Only one big partition (30GB) mountet as / 2. Noone will go to the

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Nate Campi
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: I'd recommend using the swap partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel from suse. You know it boots the box, so use it again. Er, I meant the _currently_ running kernel. Using a known good kernel cuts down the

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:17:45PM -0700, Nate Campi wrote: I'd recommend using the swap partition as suggested above, and using the original kernel from suse. You know it boots the box, so use it again. Er, I meant the