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Heheh. People used to do this with Debian when Debian wasn't widely available on remote hosts. Even made it to the official Debian manual it seems: https://www

• JoshTriplett 11y ago
  See also the "debtakeover" project, which automates this.
• lozf 11y ago
  Also similar to Colin Percival's "Depenguinator"[0] script to replace Linux with BSD (originally from 2003). [0]: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0...
• dredmorbius 11y ago
  My understanding is that that was initially intended as a local installation option -- if you'd already had a running Linux install on a system, or had booted it under a bootable Linux system -- Knoppix, or any of numerous other systems back in the day (anyone remember lnxrtbt?). It's been extended in some interesting ways, including unattended remote installations. Debian's inherehent flexability is impressive in this regard.