Argh! I spent about 5 hours yesterday troubleshooting a failed Ubuntu Jaunty -> Karmic (9.04->9.10) upgrade. It worked fine until I rebooted and then failed to boot. Here’s how I fixed it.
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Category: Linux
Ubuntu 9.10 (Jaunty Jackalope) upgrade notes
Once again Ubuntu Linux proves itself to be easy to upgrade. Going from 9.04 to 9.10 (one release newer, since their numbering is bsaed on dates) was easy, but included the standard sprinkling of manual re-customization that I’ve come to expect from Debian based systems.
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Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 (Intrepid Ibex and Jaunty Jackalope) upgrade notes
I’m at WordCamp San Francisco today and decided that running a year old version of WordPress (on a year old version of Ubuntu Linux) was undesirable. So, with the confidence that comes from many relatively easy Ubuntu OS upgrades, I charged ahead. For (I think) the second time ever, things went badly. Here’s what I did and how I fixed it.
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CentOS 5.3 Minimal VPS Install Guide
I just did this yesterday; you can pretty much just follow my CentOS 5.1 Minimal VPS Install Guide.
The differences are:
- When you get to the “More Minimizing” section,
yum -C grouplistwill show a package called “Yum Utilities” which you probably want to leave installed. - The
Deployment_Guide-en-USfile is not there so you don’t need to remove it.
That’s it.
I should also note that downloading a 3.9GB DVD ISO image in order to build a ~700MB installed OS may not be very efficient. I didn’t bother looking for a network installer but that might be the way to get this done faster.
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Upgrade Report
Painless! I’m actually starting to expect it to work without hitches now.
There are a couple of config file changes that need babysitting but none of them was difficult; I really do wish it would automatically do a three way merge between its old package version, the new version, and my version, and just assume “yes” if they merge cleanly.
Instructions are trivial: see Hardy Upgrades: Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Servers (Recommended).
This also works fine on Xen.