My apologies in advance for the long post... :) I recently upgraded my modest, home server from 2.1 to frozen. The reason I did this was I thought it would be easier to get my Epson 740 working after the upgrade. Yesterday, I went back to 2.1 by wiping out 2.2 and unpacking the original tarball backup I had made after the last 2.1 updates. There were several reasons for this.
The server's name is doma and has the following services: ssh (no telnet), bind, apache, samba, nfs, sendmail, squid and wu-ftp, along with the other, more standard services like cron, etc. There are 2 NIC's, one connected to my DSL and the other to my class C LAN. IP Masq/ipfwadm is used, since I never had a reason to upgrade from 2.0.38 to 2.2.x. This last part caused the main reason for my going back to 2.2. I run no XFree stuff. There were no issues during the actual upgrade to 2.2. When I was finished, the Win98 box on the LAN (igra) was no longer able to connect to doma via samba. I queried debian-user and someone was kind enough to let me know I needed to upgrade my kernel to 2.2.x, so I did. Then the ipmasq broke, because of the upgrade to ipchains. Having set up ipchains successfully in the past on this network, I figured I wouldn't have too big of a problem doing it again. That's when I discovered that the network-related files in /etc/init.d had changed considerably. A quick question about this. I really hope this doesn't sound snippy, or like I'm stepping over the line, but can someone familiar with the new networking setup drop a quick note or maybe point me to a document describing the advantages? Being a mere mortal, I definitely intend to read the dox thoroughly and figure out the new networking setup. Then I'll upgrade the kernel before upgrading to 2.2. This will allow me to see if some of my issues won't re-appear, maybe the upgrades carry the values forward and generate the new files from there if the latest kernel is used first. If it's definitely a good idea to upgrade the kernel first, is there any way to let the user know that before they upgrade to 2.2? Maybe a message along the lines of, "You have asked dselect/apt to upgrade your machine from 2.1 to 2.2, however you are still using a kernel from the 2.0.x series. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to the latest 2.2.x kernel before upgrading your Debian system to 2.2/potato." ...or somesuch. After I'm finished with my research and upgrades, I'll post another report. Cheers, y'all, thanks for listenin'.... :) Matthew Thompson http://mattyt.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~mattyt --Someday, I'll have a web page.-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
