Last night I finally took the plunge and upgraded central-services from Potato to Woody. Central-services is our household DNS, NTP, HTTP, SSL, FTP, SMB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Icecast and SliMP3 server. Before I took it down last night, it had 374 days of uptime. (Woo-hoo!)
While the machine was down, I replaced its power supply and replaced its two small disks (20 and 60 GB) with a single 200 GB drive, and cleaned up the cabling and IDE assignments. (I had previously put the CD-ROM on the same bus as the root hard drive, oops!) I installed the kernel 2.4.20 packages because older kernels don't support disks bigger than 134 Gb, and I set up Logical Volume Manger (LVM) on the 200 Gb disk so I can dynamically reallocate space as needed. (Before, half the mp3 collection was in /home because it didn't all fit on one drive.) LVM is very cool, BTW. Anyway, nearly everything went smoothly. It took overnight to copy all the files to the new disk, and the box is back up this morning. The installer drew my attention to about five things I had to fix manually, but AFAIK, everything upgraded correctly. It turns out that when I hand-installed the slimp3 server last fall, I never got around to writing an init script for it, so it didn't start up. And there are some other things I hand-installed and need to check. But the stuff that came from packages just worked. So Debian rocks. It isn't the newest stuff, and it's still a bitch to learn, but when they say stable, they mean it. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
