On 27 November 2012 14:13, Paul Tansom <p...@aptanet.com> wrote: > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... > > ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to > upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, either upgrade or reinstall. > Reinstall seems safer, bar the fact that there is some software that I would > need to disect the configuration of to reinstate (a backup using BoxBackup to > be precise); that points towards a step by step upgrade path (8.04, 10.04 and > 12.04), but I'm somewhat nervous of the number of possible gotchas present in > this. Has anyone done this and could comment? Did it go smoothly?!
As "untouchableangel" said - with so many steps in between, a clean install would be preferable. If you have the means to do a full backup first, though, I'd also agree - for now, go to 8.04 and then 10.04 and leave it at that for now. It's still supported, 12.04 is fairly new, and you could put off the 3rd upgrade until later. Another option along the same lines: run one of the many free P2V tools, get your 6.06 image running inside a VM, then do a test-run upgrade in that "safe" environment. P2V means "physical to virtual". VMware do a free one, I think, which you could run under VMware Player, also free. I am not sure that VirtualBox has a free one but it would probably import the VMware one made with VMware's P2V tool. Once you know exactly what you're doing and that it works in the VM, then (after a full backup!) you could do the "real" machine. Another thought: What used to be called VMware ESXi & is now called vSphere Hypervisor is free. Only restriction: max 32GB server RAM. That's still quite a lot. Snag: you need vSphere to manage it; it's Windows-only. After you've done your P2V conversion, you could bung that on the physical box and run your VM directly on it. I am assuming it's a physical server, [a] because of its age and [b] because if it was already virtualised, a backup and test-upgrade would be fairly trivial. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
