12 May
2013
12 May
'13
7:54 a.m.
On Sun, 12 May 2013 01:56:14 +0100
Keith Williams <keithwilliamsnp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've done it. Did a trial run on a machine at home
and decided that
the easiest way was not upgrade a live machine, but to go for a clean
install using the Bitfolk offer of a VPS for 2 weeks to upgrade. Have
encountered no problems (he says touching wood)
almost a me-too ;-) I did it on a EeePC 900 that originally had the
'toy' interface which I'd replaced with Debian's EeePC specific
distro.
I did the two/three stage upgrade to wheezy - apt-get upgrade,
apt- get linux -image whatever followed by a reboot and then the
apt-get full-upgrade.
I had no problems with any of the packages although I was a little
surprised about the number of packages to be installed and a couple
of times I had to stop and do and apt-get clean as I was getting error
messages about lack of space in /var/cache/apt/archives. The upgrade
continued OK (with another apt-get upgrade) once I cleared some
space.
I suspect that full Debian with gnome is too big for this little
machine, some am going to purge gnome, and anything else I don't really
need as I no longer require "mobile computing", from it and use xfce
instead.
I'm a bit reluctant to do an upgrade on my live VPS so may go down the
temp VPS route too but there is no rush, the old-stable is just fine
for now.
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server