Switched one of the boxes at the office from RH 7.2 to Debian yesterday. Sweet. The only bump I encountered was replacing the RH-installed LILO MBR with Debian’s LILO MBR (and, effectively getting the box to boot itself.) I initially did lilo -M /boot/boot.b (big mistake), and panicked when LILO died on the first boot. I then (belatedly) found out that the CDROM drive was broken, and couldn’t use my ever-so-nifty Slackware 8.1 CD as a rescue disk. So, I instead used a Slackware 8.1 bootdisk I had lying around my room, and finished setting it up this morning.
Now, I have a former RedHat box running Debian, after being bootstrapped using a Slackware 8.1 bootdisk. And to think I was thinking of using tomsrtbt instead.
Hah. Who said Linux distros were mutually incompatible? Hehehe :)
Previously: On a caffeine high