Re: easiest way to upgrade woody to sarge?
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:40:41PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> I've got a Debian Woody system that's been running decently for over a month
> now, and would like to update it to Sarge. I know it's been covered before,
> but is there an authoritative document on updating? I can only access the
> box remotely - it's hosted at the datacenter at which I work, and I don't
> typically have time to mess with it at work, although I could hook up a
> monitor/keyboard if I hosed it badly enough - so I'm wondering if there is
> a procedure known to work on remote servers without much trouble.
>
Yes. The standard procedure is known to work on remote servers, except
you should have a plan B, if there is a problem. Maybe wait a few
hours/days to be let others who aren't doing it remotely discover
whatever bugs are still there. The dist-upgrade does NOT mess with
the kernel, so you should be OK.
The standard is (I like aptitude):
1) edit sources.list to point to sarge rather than woody.
2) aptitude update
3) aptitude dist-upgrade
4) wait for a time that depends on the size of your pipe
5) answer config messages
HTH
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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