Recently there’s been released an upgraded version of the popular Debian GNU\/Linux distribution, from Debian version 5 to version 6, otherwise known of Debian “Lenny” to “Squeeze”.<\/p>\n
The following is a step-by-step guide for Network Presence customers on upgrading their Debian 5 aka “Lenny” VPS to Debian 6 (Squeeze). Please contact us if you have any problems performing this upgrade or if you’d like us to do it for you, which we’re most happy to do.<\/p>\n
Step 1: Backup your VPS. Ask us to do so for you if you’d like.<\/p>\n
Step 2:\u00a0Update your Step 3:\u00a0Run Step 4:\u00a0Run Step 5: Run Step 6: Run “ Step 7:\u00a0Run Note: During the install of the “grub-pc” package, do not select\/check the box which selects your VPS’ disk drive (\/dev\/sda1 at a “GRUB install devices”) and allow install\/upgrades to continue without installing GRUB.<\/p>\n Note: The grub-pc install may error, which is fine & you can select to continue the upgrade process within installing grub-pc.<\/p>\n Note: Do allow the dist-upgrade process to update your \/etc\/fstab file.<\/p>\n Step 8: Re-run Step 9:\u00a0Check that your \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst file does refer to the new kernel version. ie: Kernel 2.6.32-5-xen is Squeeze’ kernel.<\/p>\n eg: title Debian Squeeze, kernel 2.6.32-5-xen title OLD Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen Step 10: Contact us, as we need to change a setting for your VPS startup procedure to reflect the change in Debian’s ‘virtual disk’ names from Debian 5 to 6.<\/p>\n Step 11: Reboot to run up the Squeeze kernel. Please contact us if you have any problems, as we’re most happy to help.<\/p>\n FYI, Recently there’s been released an upgraded version of the popular Debian GNU\/Linux distribution, from Debian version 5 to version 6, otherwise known of Debian “Lenny” to “Squeeze”. The following is a step-by-step guide for Network Presence customers on upgrading their … Continue reading \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/code> file and change any word “lenny” to “squeeze”.
\nAfter that, your sources.list file may look something like:
\ndeb http:\/\/ftp.au.debian.org\/debian squeeze main non-free
\ndeb http:\/\/security.debian.org\/ squeeze\/updates main non-free
\n<\/code>
\nIf anything lists “stable”, that’s ok, as the Debian ‘stable’ repo is now Squeeze\/Deb 6 anyway.<\/p>\napt-get update<\/code> after the above sources.list change.<\/p>\napt-get install apt dpkg<\/code> as this gets the Squeeze versions of the Packaging s\/ware installed, which we use next.<\/p>\napt-get install grub-legacy<\/code><\/p>\nrm -f\u00a0\/etc\/kernel\/postinst.d\/zz-update-grub<\/code>” as that file is no longer req’d in this VPS context.<\/p>\napt-get dist-upgrade<\/code> – this performs the upgrade of all currently install Debian packages and can take some time to complete, with various prompts, one of which is noted below.<\/p>\napt-get install grub-legacy<\/code><\/p>\n
\ndefault=0
\ntimeout=20<\/p>\n
\nroot (hd0)
\nkernel \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-xen console=hvc0 root=\/dev\/xvda1 ro
\ninitrd \/boot\/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-xen<\/p>\n
\nroot (hd0)
\nkernel \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen console=hvc0 root=\/dev\/sda1 ro
\ninitrd \/boot\/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nRichard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"