[Malvern] apt-get dist-upgrade

[Andy Morris]

Darren,

You ... smart alec!

I've downloaded Kubunut 6.06.01 (y'know, I think I /like/ that typo!) 
and tried it in my wife's Toshiba SatPro 4600, where the CD is "iffy" 
(It would take too long to explain why, but it takes 10 minutes to get 
the Kbu606 loaded and usable) and my own Advent - worked in both cases, 
even with a widescreen display. I'm impressed - knocks Knoppix (which 
doesn't like either machine) into a cocked-hat. Strange that they are 
all Debian under the hood ...


Andy

Darren Beale wrote:
> Around 30 mins ago I plugged in an moth-balled Dell server that in a
> previous life I used as a dev web server and this time around I intend
> to use as a pre-production web server. The 2x SCSI discs that were in
> there I knew hadn't be used for ages as it'd ran out of space at some
> point so we used some fat IDE ones; these are now long gone as the
> machine was decommisioned a few years back and we used the disks for
> something else.
> 
> Anyhoo, upon insertion of the correct SCSI leads I switched it on and
> it boots into Woody; soon after fsck told me that the disks have not
> been checked for 895 days so I go get a beer from the fridge whilst
> it's doing its thing.
> 
> When I get back I login as root (phew remembered password) and df -h
> shows me sensible partitioning so I figure I'll try a full upgrade and
> see what happens (because I can right).
> 
> After 30 secs editing /etc/networking/interfaces and /etc/resolve.conf
> with the correct settings for the network here I do:
> 
> apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade
> 
> BIG long list of stuff
> 
> I have to answer a few questions (e.g. do I want to keep my version of
> vimrc [YES]) and I have to press enter a few times.
> 
> I'll admit that it fell over once on a hacked by me *cough* start-up
> script for bind, but once I made the change and re-ran the
> dist-upgrade it finished without a further hitch.
> 
> /etc/debian_version now reads 3.1 as opposed to 3.0 and if I were the
> sort to care about my uptime I didn't even have to reboot.
> 
> D
>