23 Jul
2009
23 Jul
'09
11:10 a.m.
[originally just to Andy but I thought it might be of general interest]
Hi Andy,
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?
1) Back-up the server and get you to put a fresh Lenny image up that I
then go and configure as I want.
2) Take a fresh Lenny image off your hands, configure it and send it
back to you to replace the current Etch image.
3) Create my own Lenny image and send it to you.
I have not administered a Xen host before so I was wondering what your
recommendation would be?
I'm quite happy to play with Xen, that's not an issue.
I'm really wondering whether there are any bitfolk-specific things that
you've done to the images that mean taking one off your hands and
configuring it would be more useful than sending you my own that I build
from a default Lenny install?
Regards,
Nigel
23 Jul
23 Jul
1:52 p.m.
Hi Nigel,
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
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.
1) Back-up the server and get you to put a fresh Lenny
image up that I
then go and configure as I want.
I will if you want, but dist-upgrade is easiest. Aside from the
above you can follow the standard Debian instructions.
I'm really wondering whether there are any
bitfolk-specific things that
you've done to the images that mean taking one off your hands and
configuring it would be more useful than sending you my own that I build
from a default Lenny install?
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
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.
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