Hi, Derek-

I really want to switch to Mandrake.  I was volunteering to test
Xandros (if it is painless) at Hans' request so we could find out how
the upgrade was and how nice or nasty a distro Xandros turned out to
be. 

>From your other posts, though, I am getting the impression that
Xandros is backed by a bunch of vile little ratbastards, and I
switched from Windows to Linux in part so I wouldn't have to give
money to such folk. So maybe once I have Mandrake up and working as my
"daily driver" I can have a go at converting my Corel partition to
pure Debian. 

Thanks for the suggestion. 


Derek Neighbors wrote:
> 
> Call me stupid but Corel is Debian.
> 
> You should be able to change the sources.list file to point to Debian.
> 
> Do
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> and you will have a Debian machine.  I am fairly certain this works, but
> can verify through the Debian ranks if you like.  (i.e. no need to wait
> for Xandros)
> 
> -Derek
> 
>  On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Lee Einer wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > I don't have a spare hard drive, but my plan is to keep Corel for
> > awhile at least, and install Mandrake on a separate partition. If that
> > goes as planned I should still be able to upgrade to Xandros, assuming
> > that the transition from the Corel to the Xandros OS is a simple
> > upgrade scenario and not something that would overwrite my existing
> > documents and applications. I don't mind being a guinea pig as long as
> > it doesn't fubar my PC:-)
> >
> >
> 
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