> Thanks Dave. Sounds like a man who's not had his hand soaking in ivory > liquid and been through the toils and tortures of various upgrades over the > years. Very insightful though. Goof thing this discussion ensued as I am > learning a lot about what to be wary of not least of all, the truth about > "testing", RC and stable distribution. Which is why, despite eating humble > pie re: the RC vs Stable discussion, I was going to wait till the status on > RC changes to "stable" and maybe even help out a bit in the upgrade path > testing. Good thing is that I don't necessarily need to muck around with the > Production machines at the moment as all development is being done in the > Lab, and some of that is in VMs, so I have the power of snapshots with me > along with physical access to machines should anything break badly. The > production machines are sitting 10,000 miles away so the best I have is > console access to them. > > Speaking of in-place upgrades, does adding the Squeeze repo. in the > sources.lst conf and running 'aptitude safe-upgrade/full-upgrade' > automaticaly begins the upgrade or is there more to it? You mentioned about > backing up configs and data etc so it doesn't sound like it's that simple > eh? > --
pretty easy... Lenny to Squeeze (5.0 to 6.0 for the mortals out there..) 1. aptitude update 2. aptitude upgrade 3. aptitude clean 4. sed -i 's/lenny/squeez/g' /etc/apt/sources.list 5. aptitude update 6. aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude 7. aptitude full-upgrade 8. aptitude clean 9. init 6 10. have a lovely beverage and relax... :) ~~~ Andrew "lathama" Latham [email protected] ~~~ -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
