[TriLUG] Re: Upgrading to Fiesty

[Jim Tuttle]

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> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:57:01 -0400
> From: Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Upgrading to Fiesty
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have two machines to upgrade from Dapper to Feisty, one notebook and 
>> one desktop.
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>> The more attractive route would be to do an upgrade to edgy and another 
>> upgrade to feisty, but what I've found online suggests this has 
>> problems.  I've had my share of problematic upgrades, but if the chance 
>> of it working is essentially zero I'll bite the bullet and do a clean 
>> install.
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> Scott,
> 
> I have just gone ( am just going ) through this process myself.  I found
> that my Feisty install CD was just a coaster, so I installed from the
> good Dapper disk that I had, confirmed that it worked, and continued.  I
> am working on a clean machine, so my results may be suspect.  For some
> reason, the 6.06 Upgrade Manager did not offer Edgy as an upgrade
> option, so I went with the "Manual" upgrade process offered on the
> website.
> 
> I changed all of the references from "dapper" to "edgy" in the
> sources.list file and did "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".
> Actually, I did them as seperate commands and repeated the dist-upgrade
> just to check, but I seemed to wind up with a working Edgy system.
> 
> Upgrade Manager then offered me Feisty as an "Automatic" upgrade, so I
> went with it.  When I last looked at that system, it was nearing the end
> of the unpacking/upgrading phase, with no apparent errors, so I am
> expecting the best.
> 
> I will let you know more as soon as I know, but that may not be until
> tomorrow.
> 
> 
> Brian


I just upgraded 5 machines, 3 desktops and 2 laptops.  4 went off
without a hitch and 2 of those have been dist-upgraded in-place through
several versions.  The one that didn't was really odd and I suspect the
drive was having read errors or something.  No big deal, though.  I
reinstalled option to format all partition except /home.  I foolishly
forgot to save the /etc files, but was able to crib what I needed from
the other machines since they all use the same iptables script, host
files, etc.

I did need the alternate install disk for one machine due, I guess, to
sata drivers or something.  I'd try the simplest thing first and make a
backup first.

Jim

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