Hi!
Am Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:14:53PM -0600, Eric Rostetter schrieb:
> With Live Upgrade, I can install a fresh OS while the machine is
> running, or upgrade (e.g. From Solaris 8 to Solaris 9) while the
> system is running. In the linux world, at least the versions I've
> used, you can't do this (Install RedHat 8.0 on the machine while it
> is up and running RedHat 7.3, or upgrade 7.3 to 8.0 while running).
At least this is working with Debian. Except that you can't easily
switch back, because the system and applications are update on the
running system. (So that's the backside...)
You can do a full upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0 even without rebooting. You
just need to reboot for new kernel packages. Although taking more than
one step at once (e.g. from 2.0 or 2.1 to 3.0) has been reported not
to work as well as from 2.2 to 3.0.
You probably have to change your source.list, but apt-get upgrade
will fetch and install you the new OS version.
> I agree you can do updates (install security patches, etc) this way.
> But not a full install or major OS upgrade, AFAIK.
So that statement (without the "AFAIK" :-) is wrong, but of course
Debian's apt-get upgrade is not as functional as Live Upgrade,
especially that you neither can't install to second environement nor
you can't switch back easily if at all.
Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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