Hi Alexander,
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:22:43PM +0000, Alexander Mann wrote:
Righty.. Thanks all for your help, much appreciated.
I think I'm there
(more or less). (I found
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.el.html
which came in handy)
Are you planning to upgrade from etch to lenny?
cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.7
uname -r
2.6.18-6-xen-686
Is this before your reboot with the new kernel? lenny users should
have linux-image-2.6-xen-686 and would expect to be seeing this
kernel:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86225 2010-11-25 03:06 config-2.6.26-2-xen-686
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-12-22 15:36 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6138908 2010-11-28 14:06 initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6137231 2010-07-01 14:28 initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 907001 2010-11-25 03:06 System.map-2.6.26-2-xen-686
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485774 2010-11-25 03:06 vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686
I would use "lenny" instead of "stable" as otherwise when squeeze is
released as stable (soon) you'll upgrade everything the next time
you do an update.
***
apt-get update still comes back with a few ignores. Should I worry?
No.
apt-get upgrade seems happy...
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
So can you clarify.. you've done an upgrade between etch and lenny
but haven't yet rebooted?
Here's some notes about that:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20090215.143329.9ef21e84.en.html
I've done etch->lenny many times on BitFolk VPSes and apart from the
above there haven't been any issues. You just follow the regular
upgrade instructions from the release notes of lenny.
But still, when it comes to major distribution upgrades we always
advise that customers ask for a snapshot to be made of their block
devices. If things go terribly wrong then we can fairly quickly
restore that, as opposed to having to do a clean install.
There is also the option of asking for a new VPS to migrate into:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Migrating_to_a_new_VPS
Cheers,
Andy
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