Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box
On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:15:54 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM:
>>
>> I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them
>> anymore.
>
> My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen. I have one server that
> I've in-place upgraded from Woody through Lenny, including hardware upgrades
> along the way (NIC, HD, IDE to SATA, piix to libata, same mobo though).
> That's 4 successive live distribution upgrades of a single host spanning 8
> years. I'm sure servers can be easier due to usually having far fewer
> packages installed. (knocks on wood)
>
> Now, the distro upgrade to Squeeze once it becomes Stable may be a different
> experience for me entirely, especially if it destroys LILO, installs Grub2,
> and hoses my system in the process.
I'm glad that you've had better luck than I have, Stan.
But now that you mention it, "servers" (i.e. machines with
no desktop environment) seem to tolerate ad-hoc migrations much
better than desktop machines. If I were going to migrate a desktop
machine to a new release, I wouldn't dare attempt it without following
the procedure in the release notes closely. But a "server" tends to be
more tolerant and more forgiving. But by comparing the list of packages
installed on a machine that has been migrated with the list of packages
on a machine that has been installed from scratch, I typically notice
dozens of left-over packages from the old release that the fresh install
does not have. I like to keep things as lean as possible and still
retain full functionality.
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