[theforum] new server staus
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Tue Nov 11 13:12:46 CST 2008
David Kaufman wrote:
> [server snippage]
>
> Actually GREAT NEWS there: I successfully booted the new server into debian
> etch at 4am this morning! (it's after lunch time as I write this) so,
> about 6 hours ago... ~10am GMT? Then I had to go to work.
>
> I installed Debian etch on, and booted from, the *swap* partition of the
> CentOS server (no I'm not crazy -- that's actually how its done:
> http://www.underhanded.org/papers/debian-conversion/remotedeb.html). And
> now that the big CentOS root partition is freed up, I can blow it away and
> copy my new root fs to it, remount everything the right way again and it'll
> be a bright, shiny new debian etch box!
Dude. That's fucking awesome, well done :)
> Sorry I didn't get to Ubuntu in my virtual testing -- I must've done this 6
> or 7 times on my virtual etch and CentOS machines, getting it wrong in
> different and interesting ways each time, so that was the route I knew how
> to go.
No probs, I'd rather have etch than nothing at all, and it gives us an
ugprade path to lenny in a few months also.
-n
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