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7/18/2006

This is seriously badass

Filed under: — adam @ 3:00 pm

“This is a HOWTO that describes how to take a stock RedHat9 system and convert it to Gentoo, remotely over ssh and while it is running.”

http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/rh-gentoo.html

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One Response to “This is seriously badass”

  1. Suramya Tomar Says:
    July 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm

    Thats pretty neat. After I read this I asked around if Debian could be installed using the same method with 0 downtime and to my surprise you can. Below are some links that talk about how to do it (Google for debtakeover for more info):

    http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/debtakeover/
    http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/debian/debtakeover/README
    http://www.underhanded.org/papers/debian-conversion/remotedeb.html
    http://www.starshine.org/SysadMoin/DebootstrapInstallation

    Thought others might find it as interesting as me.

    - Suramya

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