Comments on: HowTo upgrade from Debian Etch (4.0 ) to Lenny (5.0)

By: Kev King

Kev King — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:06:06 +0000

Please remove my comment above, not a fault of these instructions.
Had to alter the suexec var-www to alter the doc root to mine and not default, all sorted.
Thanks for the instructions very simple to follow.

By: Kev King

Kev King — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:33:35 +0000

Um! one small problem since upgrading from etch to lenny last night. Every time I try to access one of my websites now I get 500 Internal Server Error?
I followed the instructions here and during upgrade process, keeping default settings when advised, is there something I have missed?
Can access server via my other apps, its just the urls that cant be accessed.
I thought it went very well and easy to follow, obviously I have still to do something?
Any ideas?

By: chika.tambun

chika.tambun — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:25:15 +0000

dont forget
“apt-get -y dist-upgrade ”
to ignore all yes answer/ confirmation

By: Bab

Bab — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:02:59 +0000

You may replace the first part (Before upgrade) by the following : sed 's/etch/lenny/' -i'.backup' /etc/apt/sources.list

By: Jimmo

Jimmo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:12:59 +0000

thanks for how to - works a treat after upgrade

By: Gavin Westwood

Gavin Westwood — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:22:26 +0000

Note that http://ftp.gb.debian.org does not resolve. The UK version is http://ftp.uk.debian.org.

By: Miguel Gea

Miguel Gea — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:45:13 +0000

There are a big document (Debian Release notes) that is the full procedure to do this upgrade in a safe form. You could find the last version for this document at http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes

By: dangerseeker

dangerseeker — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:11:33 +0000

I run lenny (=the current “testing”) on a Acer Aspire One with no problems for about two months now. Security wise I think with “testing” you are as save as with using “stable” (=the current “etch”). Security updates are as fast for “testing” as for “stable”, if not faster.
But you should keep in mind that stability wise it *can* brake, which it VERY seldom does.

Dangerseeker

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:56:16 +0000

bjenkins, as long as you have a firewall up and functioning, you’re probably in little danger. It’s the banks security system, which keeps transactions secure.

By: bjenkins

bjenkins — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:03:55 +0000

I was curious about debian ‘testing’ and the security of it. I have always used ‘etch’ which has regular security updates. Would it be safe to use Lenny on a machine that was used for online banking or maybe something of that nature?