Hi Nigel, On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote: 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. I will if you want, but dist-upgrade is easiest. Aside from the above you can follow the standard Debian instructions. No, there's nothing. I only do a few convenience things that would work anywhere. You might encounter some problems with update-grub that have been described on this list before. http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.en.html This is a consequence of me giving you only /dev/sda1 or /dev/xvda1 and not the actual disk device (e.g. /dev/xvda) and some changes in the update-grub script. The above has workarounds. New VPSes are provisioned using a whole disk image with partitions inside, which avoids this. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

2009/7/23 Nigel Rantor <wiggly(a)wiggly.org>rg>: It certainly is to me - many thanks for sharing and Andy for your very informative reply.