tla
April 18th, 2007, 01:09 PM
So i'm pretty new at this, this is pretty much my first time using CLI with any linux distro, anyways i have a dedicated server hosted by a company, it provides a small range of Distros, Ubuntu 6.06 being one of them. (It is also possible to boot to a small debian distro, but i have no idea of installing ubuntu from that)
Problem is that right now PHP 5.1.2 is the newest repository release, and with many being recommended upgrading to 5.2.x i decided i'd try to skip the whole compile from source deal and upgrade to Feisty(Some time after release tomorrow).
I tried to upgrade to Edgy Eft, and since there was no "Update-manager" i decided to try out by modifying the sources.lst.
I did and did the apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get upgrade, even a couple of times(as i heard that sometimes it would be missing packages after doing the progress, where you would then want to do it a couple of times to make sure).
Anyways no new packages were to be installed and there was no warnings signs that i noticed, so i went ahead and rebooted the machine, a minute later i tried reconnecting and i got the "Connection Timed Out", and i tried pinging it, again "Connection Timed Out", i also tried restarting the server through the restart-service that my provider has for me, still no luck with connecting.
I restart it using their pre-programmed automated ubuntu installer, and i get my system back to 6.06.
So my question is, since i've seen a lot of different ways to do this, what would the step by step procedure be(I heard that the order of commands matter, i also heard someone append some flags to the apt-get procedure)?
Is there any way to determine if a dist-upgrade is successful and if possible revert back changes made if not successful? Seeing as i've been unable to boot it up after a dist-upgrade, this would be very helpful if i could detect that something had gone wrong and roll back the changes.
Serverstats are a Athlon 64 3700+ running amd64 binaries, got 1GB of DDRRAM and 2x160GB harddrives in a software raid 1.
Problem is that right now PHP 5.1.2 is the newest repository release, and with many being recommended upgrading to 5.2.x i decided i'd try to skip the whole compile from source deal and upgrade to Feisty(Some time after release tomorrow).
I tried to upgrade to Edgy Eft, and since there was no "Update-manager" i decided to try out by modifying the sources.lst.
I did and did the apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get upgrade, even a couple of times(as i heard that sometimes it would be missing packages after doing the progress, where you would then want to do it a couple of times to make sure).
Anyways no new packages were to be installed and there was no warnings signs that i noticed, so i went ahead and rebooted the machine, a minute later i tried reconnecting and i got the "Connection Timed Out", and i tried pinging it, again "Connection Timed Out", i also tried restarting the server through the restart-service that my provider has for me, still no luck with connecting.
I restart it using their pre-programmed automated ubuntu installer, and i get my system back to 6.06.
So my question is, since i've seen a lot of different ways to do this, what would the step by step procedure be(I heard that the order of commands matter, i also heard someone append some flags to the apt-get procedure)?
Is there any way to determine if a dist-upgrade is successful and if possible revert back changes made if not successful? Seeing as i've been unable to boot it up after a dist-upgrade, this would be very helpful if i could detect that something had gone wrong and roll back the changes.
Serverstats are a Athlon 64 3700+ running amd64 binaries, got 1GB of DDRRAM and 2x160GB harddrives in a software raid 1.