Hello all, I said that gplhost had not replied to my email about help with a domU dist-upgrade. They did reply but the reply was in my gplhost account.
So all OK now, regards peter colton On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:18, Peter Colton wrote: > Hello all, > > I need a bit of advise on upgrading a xen domU from sarge to etch. I > emailed gplhost where the domU is hosted. To see if they could give me some > pointers on howto upgrade a domU but unfortunely I have not yet got any > replie. > > If I where upgrading a standard debain install I would be OK. I would > follow the steps in the release notes for that version of debian. > > On the domU I run there seems to be no grub installed and the kernel is a > costum built. All so libc6 seems to be a costum build. > > ls /boot > System.map System.map-2.6.16.29-xenU vmlinuz vmlinuz-2.6.16.29-xenU > > dpkg -l | grep xen > ii libc6 2.3.2.xen-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and > Timezone > > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib > > deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > > #deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian stable xen > deb ftp://ftp.gplhost.com/debian sarge xen > > > The bittorent tracker that I run on this domU I may move to another server > before I do the dist-upgrade. I would all so backup all the data I needed > before the dist-upgrade just in case things go wrong. > > I do have one package from debian backport : > > aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' > iB fail2ban > > I would remove this package before I started the dist-upgrade. Then after > the dist-upgrade I install fail2ban agian. > > When it comes to dist-upgrade this domU. Would the step below be OK. > > aptitude purge fail2ban > Then : > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change sarge to etch. > aptitude update > aptitude upgrade > aptitude install libc6-xen > aptitude dist-upgrade > > Regards > > peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]