26 Jan
2011
26 Jan
'11
11:10 a.m.
Hello,
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:59:15PM +0000, john lewis wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:18:56 +0000
Ian <ian(a)lovingboth.com> wrote:
Worst case, you can log in to xen shell and do "install
debian_squeeze" and it will do a net install as if you'd booted with
netinstall ISO. :)
Also you can ask support(a)bitfolk.com for a snapshot before you do
the upgrade and if it all goes wrong we will be able to put your VPS
back to exactly how it was before you started it.
So all in all I would rather be upgrading a VPS than a real machine.
;)
Whatever packages you have installed are one thing, but in terms of
the base OS, lenny->squeeze has been pretty painless for me the many
times I've done it now.
Cheers,
Andy
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Do let us know how it goes. My first suggestion
would have been 'let
someone else be first!' :)
It is why I will do it on my home server first. I have upgraded
several time over the years but previous upgrades have not had such big
changes to deal with as the lenny > squeeze upgrade does.
At least with my home server, if the upgrade goes tits-up, I can install
squeeze from scratch using a recent iso, not so simple on a VPS