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Re: upgrade to squeeze fails for NFS-rooted system



On Sunday 28 November 2010 00:50:22 debian@good-with-numbers.com wrote:
> Upgrading lenny to squeeze fails with the following message during
> "apt-get upgrade":

>
> Yes, I do have an NFS mount--my whole filesystem:
>
> ----------
> # mount
> /dev/nfs on / type nfs (rw)
> [...]
> ----------
>
> So how do I upgrade?

  One option is to chroot into the exported file system
on the NFS *server*, and manually do this part of the 
upgrade.  You might need to bind-mount /proc to suppress
some complaints.

				-- A.
-- 
Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net


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