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How-to: Upgrade Debian 4 to Debian 5

Submitted by boydjd on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 13:23
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One of the server providers that I use for some reason only likes to deploy Debian 4, even though 5 is out and stable. Here's how to easily upgrade from Etch to Lenny via SSH/command line.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> etch main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> etch main contrib non-free

deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="http://security.debian.org/">http://security.debian.org/</a> etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="http://security.debian.org/">http://security.debian.org/</a> etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb <a href="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile" title="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile">http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile</a> etch/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile" title="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile">http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile</a> etch/volatile main contrib non-free

Then do the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After this completes, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all instances of "etch" with "lenny":

deb <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/" title="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/</a> lenny main contrib non-free

deb <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="http://security.debian.org/">http://security.debian.org/</a> lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://security.debian.org/" title="http://security.debian.org/">http://security.debian.org/</a> lenny/updates main contrib non-free

deb <a href="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile" title="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile">http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile</a> lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src <a href="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile" title="http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile">http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile</a> lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

Now we go through the update/upgrade/dist-upgrade process again, and then reboot:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo shutdown -r now

Got error 28 from storage engine (1030)

Submitted by boydjd on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 16:48
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Apparently rather than throwing a “disk full” error message, mysql likes to tell me ERROR 28. Oh how I love mysql error messages.

Also, I really enjoy having to do work on a “production server” that is a virtual machine, with 6GB of disk space, in a test lab.

Good idea guys. Maybe some server monitoring should be in place for a PRODUCTION SERVER, no?

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