Re: cobalt upgrade etch => lenny
On 2009-03-15, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> [2009-03-15 11:03]:
>> I have a old cobalt running etch.
>> I thought of upgrading it to lenny, but as I have no other access to it
>> than thru SSH, it should kind of succeed in first attempt.
>>
>> What's the gotchas in upgrading it ?
>> Reading the release mipsel release notes mentioned issues with grub and
>> lilo and well... that kind of doesn't apply to this machine.
>
> I'm not aware of any gotchas, but you never know... fortunately, the
there wasn't any gotchas, at least for me.
> Cobalt has a serial connector and getting a null modem cable should be
> relatively easy in case something goes wrong (which, of course, I
> hope it doesn't).
but I need a machine with serial port ;)
(usb serial devices is ordered and is under way)
/Sune
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