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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Simon Waters wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> 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. > > Sarge - Etch - Lenny -- bah you don't want to know the history of my > desktop since I installed Debian on it, it'd make you really scared... Well, I still have a server on woody... >> 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.. > > The release notes are really good for those upgrading servers to lenny. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes > > All of chapter 4 for x86 is rather long, but it covers things like using > UUID for disks (as those coming from 2.4 or old 2.6 may find disks > renamed). This can affect grub config as well. Good reading - not for me though as I don't use those new fangled things like udev, uuid's and grub... Although un-doing udev from a system installed with it from scratch is somewhat challenging )-: I wish I had the option of not having it installed in the first place. Gordon -- 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