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:-)
>   
>