February 8th, 2004
Debtakeover
Last evening I experimented with converting a RH62 box to Debian with debtakeover. After getting it to figure out that it was running on an i386 box and not one that was NULL, it ran overnight and successfully converted the base RedHat install to Debian Woody.
The only problem is that sshd wouldn’t come up upon reboot.
But not bad for the first try, but not good if I don’t have console access.
I also used Microsoft’s Virtual PC to test all of this. I highly recommend it, it saved me from having to build a whole new PC to test this.