Hello Andreas
It should be possible. I upgraded a number machines from slink to
potato - remotely but I have not started on remote potato to woody
upgrades yet. If helps if you have practised on a local machine.
I suggest you take a few precautions:
- use apt-get -d to download everything you need before you
start.
- open 3 or more ssh sessions. Setup a ping in the spare
sessions. Then if you loose your main one, the others should
still be open to give you a "back door". This can save you if
something crashes during the setup of the new ssh.
- use "script" or something similar to keep a record of the screen
dump. Then if you miss a warning or error you can go back and
read it.
- be vary careful before you do anything that changes ipchains
rules.
- be vary careful before you re-boot the machine.
Let me know how it goes. Good Luck.
Ian
On 4 Feb 2002, at 15:16, Andreas Rabus wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> there was an thread about potaota/woody on the weekend, but i didn't get an
> important answer:
> I'd like to "dist-upgrade" our potato InternetServer in production to woodo
> and i have only a ssh and telnet-ssl connection to that box.
>
> So, what's the best way to do it?
>
> If i lost net connection, i'm stuck. (Grab a monitor, a keyboard etc. take
> it to the cellar of the box at the other end of the city, reboot, wait,
> repait and menawhile i got a few hoers downtime...)
> That's s.th. i'm afaraid of so i should try to avoid it...
>
> But how can a connecten get lost whiel dist-upgrade and what can i do to
> avoid this?
>
> I have an other box wich ist nearly similar t that interbox in the LAN, so i
> can try it there first, but they dont share the network connectin and
> config. An i can't switch boxes, the are to different.
>
> Has anybody done s.th. like that before? With succes? Failed?
>
> ar
>
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