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Re: Upgrade Experiences (27 Sarges -> Etch, and counting)



Seg, 2007-02-12 às 20:35 +0100, Adrian von Bidder escreveu:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 17.23:28 Maarten Verwijs wrote:
> > I took the plunge and upgraded about half of the Lab here to Etch.
> > This is about 27 machines to date, catering almost the same amount of
> > users.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Manually?  I'd just like to point out that for 27 machines, setting up a fai 
> server is definitely worth the effort!  Painless re-installs, and moving 
> our fai setup from sarge to etch (including LDAP auth, NFS homes and some 
> local specialties) cost me less than 2 days.
> 
> (Of course, if you really upgraded these machines manually, the RMs and many 
> others are grateful for the testing :-)
remotely run echo "deb http://ftp.mirror.debian.org/debian etch main
contrib non-free > /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade -y ... it's not 2 days of work :P

besides this, i agree that fai is a lot better to manage all users ...
seems to be that these 27 machines have only local users (i think ... )
> 
> cheers
> -- vbi
> 
-- 
Best Regards,
--
Luis Matos



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