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






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Hello all,

I said that gplhost had not replied to my email about 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


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