24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
2:27 p.m.
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:14:46PM +0000, john lewis wrote:
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:11:28 +0400
"Rakhesh Sasidharan" <bitfolk(a)rakhesh.com> wrote:
On the whole, yes, follow the documented upgrade procedure. But..
Now that Squeeze is around the corner, I was
wondering if there are
any special steps I need to take while dist-upgrade from Lenny to
Squeeze since I am running on Xen.
Any experiences/ suggestions welcome!
It should be as simple as editing /etc/apt/sources.list changing
any lenny entries to squeeze, then doing a (sudo) update followed by a
(sudo) dist-upgrade. aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686 (use version to
suit your
architecture)
Make sure it's a -bigmem (PAE) kernel or it won't work under Xen.
Before you shutdown and boot into the new kernel you'll want to make
sure that you're still using grub legacy (not grub 2.x). That's
"grub-legacy" package on squeeze. Your grub kopt should look
something like:
# kopt=root=UUID=4bed9b7f-b2af-4bee-9750-9a6d8b12b590 ro console=hvc0
(i.e. get rid of the clocksource=jiffies that you may have had under
lenny)
The kernel you'll want is linux-image-686-bigmem.
Make sure that your /boot/grub/menu.lst is actually going to boot
into the right kernel, You may need to run update-grub.
Consider asking support for a snapshot first..
Cheers,
Andy
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