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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Jonathan Holloway wrote: > I'm currently on Etch on a VPS, has anybody experienced any issues with > upgrading to Lenny at all? > Still haven't moved on the desktop, still on Intrepid Ibex, but good to know > it's a good choice for older > machines... : ) I've migrated a desktop, a laptop and some servers (2 remote!) from Etch to Lenny. One box (my desktop) has gone from woody through Sarge and Etch to Lenny without a re-install and one server has gone from Sarge through Etch to Lenny too. Shut-down as much as you can, do the upgrade, then fix the faults :) Remember to get the i686 libc and kernel if you have a 686 processor for a few more ticks of speed.. You can, if you want to, make Lenny (and all Debians) really "lean", but it takes time and patience. Note also that Debian doesn't install a C compilet now by detault either (I think that starte in Etch though), so if you build stuff yourself (Which I do), then you need to install it. There's a lot of stuff that seems to be included by default that I'm sure most desktop people won't use either, so half an hour with dselect (or whatever fancy package manager du jour you like to use) can remove a lot - most are just taking up disk space, but a few are running - stuff like portmap - which you'll never use unless you use NFS, etc. maybe inetd too. Gordon > > Jon. > > 2009/4/13 Adam Latham <adam.latham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> I finally did it! >> >> I ditched that awful orange brown Gnome desktop from Ubuntu and have >> gone down the road of Debian (Thanks to LXF mag for the disc!) >> >> Enjoying it, I must say. Pity I can't seem to get my stupid SiS card to >> play audio (malconfigured I expect, and entirely my fault - hooray!) >> >> I've started to remember why I started using Linux in the first place: >> If I want something to behave/look different - I change it. I also >> realise now (after much gnashing of teeth) how much I relied on a lot of >> bloatware in the orange distro. Debian is just way quicker on my weedy >> old Inspiron 1000 lappy. >> >> Oh, and yes.. I have discovered that the advice I didn't take many moons >> ago about a separate /home partition was a really silly thing to >> ignore. Live and learn! >> >> Anyhoo, loving Lenny so much I just had to tell you all! >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html >> > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html