On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I read the mini HOWTO and reports in this mailing list about unstable > being "stable enough". My machine is kind of a production server. The > world would not end if it goes down for a day or so. But still it is > important to have it up and running ASAP. I am planning on upgrading to > hamm later today. I have a few questions before I set off - > > * I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free > tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is > there a possibility that NFS might stop working during the upgrade > process?
Remote NFS filesystems won't break, that is built into the kernel. Exported NFS filesystems will be off for the time it takes to update netstd. > * Could some kind soul who has gone through the upgrade process give me > a roadmap? The Mini-HOWTO, though useful, does not provide information > on how to upgrade the other packages once I have done the basic > upgrading. Can I start using dselect after following the instructions > in the mini-HOWTO? Yes, after upgrading the core packages and bash and perl, everything else can be upgraded by pointing dselect to a hamm mirror and running though the install/configure routine a few times (3-4 probably). Check out http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/ which now has a script to upgrade all the core packages in the correct order. > * I have compiled and installed some packages under /usr/local/ (pgsql, > ssh, socks etc.). I guess I have compiled these with libc5. Is there a > possibility that they would stop working when I upgrade to libc6? Libc5 and libc6 coexist fine on a system, the libc5-based librarys are simply moved to an alternate location, similar to the a.out transition. > * I am running something > 1.3.1.r4 Should I get hold of the libc5 > libraries (from gate.net) that don't conflict with libc6 and upgrade > after installing these libraries? That's not necessary with the upgrade script I mentioned above. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .