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Originally Posted by gottasummer
Ah, okay.
The server is located in the basement, use it for file server mainly right now... 2 gigs of RAM a P4, 120GB hard drive...
Is it possible to switch distro's remotely? I heard it works on Debian but do not want to lug it up here, then lug it back down, you know...
Thanks
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You want to look at the program debootstrap from
http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap - get the tar.gz version from the bottom of the page.
It'll download bits of debian from the archives, and install them into a directory which you can then chroot into. Once you've got a debian system to run in, you can then create a new filesystem, copy things into it, install a new boot block and reboot into a pure debian system if you want, or you can just run from the chroot.
The most important thing is to do a hell of a lot of reading if you want to go the last step and repair your redhat based system to debian.
If you do want to switch from redhat/suse to debian permanently, rest assured that this step (the debootstrap step) is the hardest thing you'll ever have to deal with on your Gnu/Linux sytem unless you want to run commercial linux software on debian and get some kind of commercial support.