Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

["Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hello,
> Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while
> it's live (in other words, not in single user level.)  The machine in
> question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for
> any longer than required.
>
> If there is no problem doing this (upgrading the distro while in run-level
> 3), is there a recommended order?  I'm assuming it would be best to
> upgrade libc6 and then apt-utils and then do an "apt-get upgrade".  Is
> this correct, or would another way be better?
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
> 	-- Robert

I just did an upgrade from Debian 2.2r2 (early Potato) to Woody 
yesterday without any problems.  I used "apt-get deselect-upgrade" to do 
it.  One caveat.. it was a very basic Potato install...  in fact it was 
a "base" install without any apps from either dselect or tasksel 
applied.  I would recommend reading the install / upgrade instructions 
in the release notes first.

YMMV.

Good Luck!
-Don Spoon-