Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-04 22:21, Kun Niu wrote:
> Dear all,
> My debian system was installed on Sep. 2005.
> Now, we've decided to upgrade my present system via apt-get to the latest
> stable debian branch.
> Our kenel is 2.4.21.

What a *boring* system.  But... boring can be good!

> We've encountered the problem upgrading the kernel to 2.6.8.

Is that Etch?

> It seems that apt-get fail to execute the update-initramfs and the box fails
> to boot.
> I execute the command by hand.
> But I haven't rebooted my machine since then.
> Hope that the new kernel will work for me.
> Is there anything else I should pay special attention to?
> Thanks for any attention and reply in advance.

Are you trying to go straight from Woody to Lenny?

--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer