10 Oct
2010
10 Oct
'10
10:27 a.m.
Hello,
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 10.10 has just been released.
BitFolk will be offering it as a supported VPS image, but it's not
ready yet.
You should be able to upgrade to it, but I would urge caution.
Ubuntu's support of Xen has not historically been that great and
something unexpected could happen. If you are going to try this then
I would strongly urge you to email support and ask for a snapshot to
first be made of your block devices. If all goes wrong then it can
be quickly and easily rolled back.
When the 10.10 image is ready we should also in most cases be able
to provide you with a new VPS running 10.10 concurrently with your
existing VPS for two weeks at no additional charge, for you to
migrate to. You would need to pick a new account name, and IP
addresses will change. Please contact support if you wish to do that.
Please note the support schedule for Ubuntu releases and that 10.04
as currently offered by BitFolk is an LTS release, unlike 10.10. If
you upgrade to 10.10 then you're most likely going to also have to
upgrade to every other release in turn, to get to the next LTS.
If there is no external requirement to upgrade to 10.10 then you
might consider it prudent to wait until the next LTS is released
instead.
Cheers,
Andy
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10 Oct
10 Oct
12:16 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:27:51AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 10.10 has just been released.
The gb.archive.ubuntu.com was suffering earlier - no response in 30s
but currently down to 6.8s. If you're planning to do a lot of
package installs/upgrades today then you may wish to reconfigure it
to use the www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com mirror
which is currently the best-performing of the three Ubuntu mirrors
that are configured on BitFolk's apt-cacher[1].
Cheers,
Andy
[1] gb.archive.ubuntu.com/
www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/
ubuntu.datahop.net/
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
4 Nov
4 Nov
12:20 p.m.
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:27:51AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 10.10 has just been
released.
BitFolk will be offering it as a supported VPS image, but it's not
ready yet.
If you're feeling brave:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Upgrading_to_Ubuntu_10.10
(still not what I'd consider "ready", because I'm only aware of one
customer using it in anger and that doesn't look too healthy, as
described)
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
6 Nov
6 Nov
4:52 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:20:23PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:27:51AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
You refer to us :)
The issue we had is that the root device was xvda and now (with the kernel in
10.10) is detected as sda. We change to use the UUID and it (seems at least,
I've just change it to UUID 5 minutes ago) to work okay =)
Also, using .32 from 10.04 with ubuntu 10.10 worked ok for us too (although
there are some warnings while booting)
Thanks,
Rodrigo
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 10.10 has just been
released.
BitFolk will be offering it as a supported VPS image, but it's not
ready yet.
If you're feeling brave:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Upgrading_to_Ubuntu_10.10
(still not what I'd consider "ready", because I'm only aware of one
customer using it in anger and that doesn't look too healthy, as
described)
9:10 a.m.
Hi Rodrigo,
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:52:56AM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:20:23PM +0000, Andy Smith
wrote:
Yes, you are the brave ones. :)
If you're feeling brave:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Upgrading_to_Ubuntu_10.10
(still not what I'd consider "ready", because I'm only aware of one
customer using it in anger and that doesn't look too healthy, as
described)
You refer to us :) The issue we had is that the root device was xvda and
now (with the kernel in
10.10) is detected as sda. We change to use the UUID and it (seems at least,
I've just change it to UUID 5 minutes ago) to work okay =)
Also, using .32 from 10.04 with ubuntu 10.10 worked ok for us too (although
there are some warnings while booting)
So are you saying that the 10.10 kernel now does boot for you, and
does not have the kernel warnings you saw with the 10,04 kernel?
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
3:15 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:10:28AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Rodrigo,
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:52:56AM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
Yes, I'm saying that. Sorry I wasn't clear enough :)
Thanks,
Rodrigo
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:20:23PM +0000, Andy
Smith wrote:
Yes, you are the brave ones. :)
If you're feeling brave:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Upgrading_to_Ubuntu_10.10
(still not what I'd consider "ready", because I'm only aware of one
customer using it in anger and that doesn't look too healthy, as
described)
You refer to us :) The issue we had is that the root device was xvda
and now (with the kernel in
10.10) is detected as sda. We change to use the UUID and it (seems at least,
I've just change it to UUID 5 minutes ago) to work okay =)
Also, using .32 from 10.04 with ubuntu 10.10 worked ok for us too (although
there are some warnings while booting)
So are you saying that the 10.10 kernel now does boot for you, and
does not have the kernel warnings you saw with the 10,04 kernel? 
4:38 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 12:15:44PM -0300, Rodrigo Campos wrote:
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:10:28AM +0000, Andy Smith
wrote:
Just to clarify, it's the 10.10 -virtual kernel we're running, and
everything seems just fine.
Thanks a lot,
Alberto
So are you saying that the 10.10 kernel now does
boot for you, and
does not have the kernel warnings you saw with the 10,04 kernel?
Yes, I'm saying that. Sorry I wasn't clear enough :)
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