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



> > Yes. That's what I want.  Would that be too dangerous?
> > We've encountered the boot failure problem.
> > But the system works fine when switching back to the old 2.4 kernel.
> >
>
> I don't think that Debian ever supports skipping major releases, and also I
> think that before moving to Etch you should be running the 2.6 kernel and
> have upgraded apt, dpkg and other important utilities.  But if 2.6.9 won't
> boot, that's a problem.

You can always compile a kernel from source.  I have done that on several occasions to upgrade a system.

Brian



      


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