On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 23:37 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > On 2016-02-20 20:46, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > > Probably it would be enough to do the following: at first to update as > > much as possible with the actual "squeeze-lts" entry, following by > > changing all "squeeze-lts" and "squeeze" entries to "wheezy" and > > update/upgrade it again in some way of a 'safe upgrade' (there is some > > syntax on the web how to do that, and that step will upgrade only the > > kernel parts of the system), and finally to do full upgrade again (all > > the rest packages in the system). > > For upgrading _to_ squeeze, I believe the recommendation was to apt-get > update && apt-get install linux-image... etc. as one of the earliest > steps, probably due to udev and initrd finicky bits. > > For the systems I've upgraded from squeeze to wheezy, I've essentially > followed the bog standard instructions: > > Commented out the squeeze-lts entry, and added wheezy entries: > > deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib > non-free > > > After that: > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > Pay attention to any errors and warnings, and if successful, followup with: > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > > However, the devil is in the details of "pay attention". > > One system failed to update initrd and also failed to install Grub 2 > properly, which resulted in an unbootable system. Using a Wheezy USB > disk in rescue mode solved that quickly enough. > > Additionally, pay very close attention to all config files that are > changed; several of these need a bit of manual editing to get services > back up and running.
This is the approach I took and all went well, except for a few packages that I needed to install manually and a message from mysql "Could not perform immediate configuration on 'mysql-server-5.5" Which I had to install manually with it's dependencies. Thanks for the help guys.
