Hi there, I've made now publicly available the script[1] I've been working on to substitute in runtime any distribution to Debian. It does not convert in the sense of mapping all previous installed packages to the Debian counterparts, but installs a base system or tarball and cleans traces from previous distribution, from there you are in a purified environment. =P It will backup some important data like /etc, and will not touch some other like /home. The script was conceived to migrate a colo that was running RedHat, so it's as less intrusive as it can be, it does not touch the bootloader nor the kernel, and a reboot is optional but recommended. It has been tested on RedHat and SuSE. I'm finishing the Gentoo network setup conversion code. The rest of it can be found here. And people always laugh when I say Debian will rule the world. Foolish mortals .