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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:27:29 +0100 David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anybody done an upgrade from Sarge to Etch yet? Any gotchas > (particularly relating to Apache, MySQL or Postfix)? > > Trying to work up the courage to dist-upgrade my production server... I've now done four upgrades from various directions, including Sarge to Etch and Sid to Etch. The easiest one was my own server - I simply changed /etc/apt/sources.list and cron-apt did the rest. (And yes, it is still running - it's running the DCGLUG website!) The ONLY problem is: Use a 2.6 kernel BEFORE the upgrade, or at the very least a 2.4 kernel and then upgrade to 2.6 inside Etch. You MUST be running at least a 2.4 kernel to upgrade to Etch. (glibc reasons). I tried to start with a 2.2 kernel on one box and got into a real tizz where I had to downgrade to Sarge (oldstable) to install a 2.4 kernel, upgrade to Etch and then to a 2.6 kernel. As ever, remember to make sure that things like lilo actually WORK after installing a new kernel - I had a nasty surprise with one box when I forgot that I'd tweaked /etc/lilo.conf to boot from the second harddrive and referring to the OLD kernel image!! So get your kernel sorted in advance, then upgrade and everything else falls into place. I had no problems that could not be attributed solely to running a v.old kernel in each case. Note, however, that the 2.2 box shows how long Linux can run without a reboot! I installed that box in about 2001 and it simply hasn't needed a new kernel until now. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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