On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:38:35 +0100 mess-mate <mess-mate@orange.fr> wrote: > any remarks about a dist-upgrade of my vserver guest from etch (debian) > to lenny before i do something wrong. > Can i do that as usely with an update, ugrade and dist-upgrade after > changing /etc/apt.sources.list ? just a helpful hint: look through /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost of the util-vserver package in lenny (which either should or will be installed on your host, assuming the host is running lenny) and see what it does. it's the post install script for a debian guest. this script cleans up a new debian install for running as a vserver guest (eg removing hardware-specific startup symlinks under /etc/rc*.d, removing sendsigs test for splash screen in /proc/cmdline), but there is no script to clean up an upgraded install. the script is also some what release-specific, ie the lenny version accounts for rsyslog and dsyslog, which were not available in etch. so browse through that script, figure out what is applicable to your upgraded lenny guests, and manually execute that part of the script (or do it completely by hand). or just live with the annoyances, because i don't remember the script doing anything that's *required* for running an upgraded guest (during my previous experience upgrading guests from sarge to etch; maybe not even *required* for a new install, but definitely silences some init script hardware-specific complaints seen on guest start-up). corey -- undefined@pobox.com