Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:35:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> > Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what
> > some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time
> > it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully
> > up-to-date Lenny system).
> Based on upgrades of earlier releases (haven't upgraded anything to
> squeeze yet), you are looking at hours, not minutes.
>
> My record is 13 hours for an etch to lenny upgrade.
Mine is something like 8 months.. due to a problem with a PCMCIA card
and looking at the wrong doc.. Of course, the issue being that specific,
there was no way it was ever going to be mentioned in the etch release
notes.:-(
Of course, since sarge was still supported, and since I always do the
ugrade on a clone of the previous system, I had little motivation to
make things happen any faster.
But all the same, I currently have linux console resolution problems
with my squeeze upgrade with no end in sight.
Just to mention that depending on your circumstances, and how much
inconvenience you're prepared to put up with with the new system,
there's always a chance that you may run into a showstopper that may
delay the switch for much longer than the time the upgrade procedure
actually takes.
> On a 2Mbit connection only a small proportion of that time was spent
> downloading packages. The system was an AMD Duron 650MHz of 2000
> vintage, and laden with Gnome, KDE, and various server packages
> including cups, exim, apache, hplip, moinmoin. (Note to self: purge
> unwanted software before the next upgrade).
> Even on much newer/faster and less loaded systems I don't recall any
> upgrade taking much less than an hour.
>
> You need to be on hand during the upgrade, as configuration questions
> can occur at any time.
>
> Also if you rely on the system for anything important, you need to
> allow time to diagnose and fix the fallout i.e. breakages that aren't
> covered in the release notes. It happens unfortunately.
Oh yes, it does.. :-(
cj
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