Re: Upgrade procedure: etch -> lenny

[Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-02-19 04:00 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > I plan to upgrade to lenny over the weekend:
> >
> > 1. duplicate current etch system on a new partition
>
> Good idea to be cautious.
>
> > 2. apt-get update
> > 2. replace "etch" by "lenny" in /etc/sources.list
>
> These steps need to be reversed, obviously.
>
> > 3. apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > Am I missing anything?
>
> Yes, a very important step: inform yourself of potential problems and
> read the release notes first!
>
> Sven

Hello

I recently ( yesterday :-) ) upgraded 3 servers from etch to lenny
following the same procedure mentionned above.

The only small problem came because I use HP proliant systems that
use the "famous" Broadcomm bnx2 driver which require to copy the
"firmware file" into /lib/firmware directory BEFORE doing the upgrade.

After doing that the upgrade have been successfully performed.

CAUTION ! I did that on servers *without* graphical environemment

I've also tried the same operation onto a workstation with gnome
graphical environemment and the upgrade failed , I've been forced
to reinstall the machine from scratch.

my two cents (of Euro) ...