Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:22:04AM -0800, tony mollica wrote:
> Just upgraded mine. I've been fearing that upgrade as the
> report for the upgrade
> showed hundreds of packages to be removed. What I did was copy
> the current
> installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the
> original disk intact.
>
> Ran the update and dist-upgrade many times, including installing
> the new kernel
> 2.6.18 to get the udev stuff. After a while I finally reached
> the point where no packages
> were being removed, added updated, etc and the installation
> works fine. I have a post
> labeled 'Debian testing, alsa and cups' in here somewhere that
> is a request for help
> to find a couple of relatively minor problems (but annoying).
>
> The test was what would happen if I just ran the upgrade and see
> if a bootable
> system resulted, and it worked. Unfortunately I don't keep good
> records so I can't
> give a step by step. I did follow a procedure I found somewhere
> in the documentation
> that recommended some updates prior to the upgrade. The
> Aptitude was one of
> them. Also, one of the responders to my post mentioned above
> had a link to
> a procedure that also may help.
>
> Have fun.
By the way, you're top-posting.
It was not the xfree->xorg transition that killed my upgrades; I
weathered that one fairly well. My system died in the transition from
xorg 6.9 to xorg 7.0. The installer daily build I installed on Jan 2,
2007 seens to have done a decent job of getting X up (on a fresh
install, mind you, I didn't try an upgrade) but I suffered severe
file-system damage with that one. It may have been hard disk problems;
it may also have been that I was one of the few hit by a race condition
in the Debian 2.6.18-3 kernel. I posted a bug report; it's probably
been fixed in 2.6.18-4, and I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival on 2.6.18-4
into etch and its installer. The hard disk problem is such that I don't
*think* it caused the particular symptoms I had, but it's hard to know
for sure. Instead of investigating the install failure further, I've
been replacing the hard disk.
I do expect that the upgrade path will become smooth by the time etch
is stable, and that once that happens, you won't need to reinstall.
-- hendrik
>
>
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:43:31AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >>Backup is essential. I've tried to do an upgrade from sarge to etch
> >>several times over the past year, and have yet to do one that resulted
> >>in a working system. I found a new install works better, but even there
> >>I have problems.
> >
> >Funny, I thought one of the big advantages of Debian over most other
> >distros is that you *don't* need to reinstall when a new version comes
> >out. What's the deal with etch, then? Debian's not jumping on the
> >'reinstall for every upgrade' bandwagon, is it?
> >
> >(And I ask this from a system which has been through slink, potato,
> >woody, and is currently on sarge, all without needing a reinstall.)
> >
>
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> tony
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