topic Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch in Operating System - Linux

Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Karsten Riechel — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:27:31 GMT

We run two DL360 G5 here with Debian Sarge, runs fine.

We now plan to upgrade to Debian Etch. Is it possible to do this, if yes, how? Is it recommendable to upgrade?

Thanks a lot for all your answers and best regards.

ric

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:44:58 GMT

Shalom,

Sarge is a venerable, reliable release I've been seeing questions on it for a long time.

All good things need to be upgraded. Back up your critical data and configuration files before you start.

I prefer cold install to upgrades, systems come out cleaner that way.

SEP

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Karsten Riechel — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:54:04 GMT

Thanks alot Steven, very good points.

Technical question leaving for me. I had some problems installing Sarge a few months ago with installing grub (the boot-sector-thing).

When there's no net installer available for Etch, did I have to count with additional problems?

Thanks for your answers.

ric

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Ivan Krastev — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:48:52 GMT

Hi Karsten,

here are network install disks for Etch - http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/index.en.html

regards,
ivan

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Mr Arc — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:26:45 GMT

You can upgrade from sarge to etch.

Change the source.list to etch for upgradation and then execute
#apt-get update.

* Then Execute the command as #apt-get dist-upgrade.

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Matti_Kurkela — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:32:43 GMT

Read the release notes of Etch before starting the upgrade. It contains very detailed instructions for upgrades just like this.

The recommended tool for the upgrades is "aptitude" instead of "apt-get". They are very similar, it is just that "aptitude" has a bit better understanding about the package dependencies.

For example, if you install a package with aptitude, aptitude marks any packages you did not explicitly select but were required to fulfill dependencies as "automatic". If you later remove all packages that required those, it will automatically offer to remove the "automatic" packages too, as it sees they are not needed by anything any more. This helps a lot in keeping the amount of library cruft within manageable limits.

MK

Re: Upgrade DL360 Debian Sarge to Etch

Karsten Riechel — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:09:32 GMT

Thanks for all your help and hints.

We will work through the documents and try an upgrade to Etch.

I will reply here for lessons learned :)

Thanks alot.