23 Jul
2009
23 Jul
'09
9:33 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:52:18PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Nigel,
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
And I would suggest you to read the release notes:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes
I am thinking of upgrading my VPS to Lenny and
was wondering what you
think the easiest, or least downtime, option would be.
I suppose either;
0) Do a dist-upgrade - is this liable to work like a charm?
Yes, if you bear in mind the gotchas that have been pointed out on
this list before:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080820.163101.70ccaa59.en.html
http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Installationonlenny
I've done this many times without real incident.
I would still advise that you schedule it for a time that I will be
around, and you ask me to do an LVM snapshot before you do it, so it
could be rolled back quickly if necessary.