On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems]
> > I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only > use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody and being slap-dash, I > tried to install a piece of software using apt-get, which promptly failed. > > Seeing the conversation above, it sounds bad - but I'm going to try > something otherwise I have to ask the hosting co to wipe my Xen slice for > me. > > If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade > to sarge OK? Or is it too late? you should read the release notes for sarge first: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html and you might need to use "oldstable" as the identifier in sources.list. But yes, you should be able to upgrade to sarge. Once you're in the think of it, you might want to take the next step and move up to etch since it may go to old stable in the next few months. Then when that happens, you can move up to lenny when it's fairly fresh. At that point, you can let it go for another 5 years or so... ;-) A
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