Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Jim <jimd@starshine.org>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:25:05PM -0800, Christopher Malek wrote:
> JH: Jim Hickstein
 
> JH> But I doubt they address what apt-get dist-upgrade can do: I took a 
> JH> neglected Debian 2.2 "stable" machine (hadn't been touched for over a 
> JH> year), did "apt-get update" to prepare to upgrade it to 3.0 (by then the 
> JH> "stable" release), and did the dist-upgrade via ssh, with the machine 
> JH> running as a production web server. 
 
> FWIW, I've had people report to me that they've successfully
> dist-upgrade'd from RH6.x boxes to RH7.x boxes via apt-rpm.  Not sure
> what the downtime was (you would probably have to modify a few config
> files after all ... at least sendmail).  
 
> That personally gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. :)

 I had one friend that did a "live" conversion of his Red Hat system
 *into* a Debian system in a way that would really set your skin
 crawling.

 He started with 'swapoff' and then did a mkfs on the swap partition,
 mounted that, extracted a small tar of a full Debian system to that
 (you can fit one in let than 100Mb with full networking), reworked 
 LILO, ran /sbin/lilo, and then rebooted (with fingers crossed).

 After it came back up, he ssh'd back into it (having gotten that
 part *right*) and reformatted his other filesystems and just kinda
 shoved everything in place.

--
Jim Dennis