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=== Martinp24 is now known as Martinp23
alecshi there21:20
FlannelHowdy alecs21:20
alecscould you help me with some guide lines about this upgrade ?21:20
Flannelalecs: You're sure you want to try it?21:20
alecsyeah ...21:21
alecsi want the server up and running until tommorow night21:21
FlannelI thught I read something in #ubuntu about you already trying to go to feisty?  is that true?21:21
alecsbecause is devel server21:21
alecsyea i have tried to go tu gutsy actually (7.10)21:22
FlannelHow far did you get?21:22
alecsmachine that i use to speak with you is a gutsy too21:22
alecswell ... until i have downloaded the sources21:22
FlannelSince, depending on what happened with that, we may not be able to go to breezy without a lot of anguish21:22
alecsand then crashed a lot of things ....21:22
alecsi am allready installing fresh linux (5.04)21:23
FlannelOh, you installed this fresh?21:23
Flanneland can't install a newer version why again?21:24
alecsi am doing this right now ...21:24
alecsbecause ... i do not have the install CD with me ...21:24
alecsi am 80 km from that CD21:24
FlannelAnd you can't download an burn another? or netboot or something to get it?21:24
alecsand is allready 11.34 here (PM)21:24
Flannelright, but we're going to be doing quite a bit to upgrade you to dapper even, two upgrades.21:25
FlannelAlright, well, we're following these guides, more or less: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes21:25
FlannelThis is a fresh install of Hoary?21:25
alecsof ubuntu 5.0421:26
Flannelalecs: right.  Alright, we'll want to change our sources.list to old-releases.ubuntu.com instead of whatever is in there.  you can go ahead and do that now.21:27
alecsw8 for a sec ...21:27
FlannelAnd while you're there, go ahead and change hoary to breezy21:27
Flannelon all the lines21:27
alecsok21:28
alecsnow booting ...21:29
alecsi have to configure my network and after that we shall see21:29
alecsby the way what is default root password?21:30
FlannelThere is no root password, the root account is locked21:30
alecswell ... how do i unlock it ...21:31
alecs?21:31
FlannelYou don't need to, use sudo instead21:31
alecsok21:31
alecsi know about that ;)21:31
alecsok21:32
alecswhat do i change in source list ///21:32
alecsi will comment cd-rom line21:32
Flannelchange all the URLs to http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu21:33
Flanneland then change the hoarys to breezys21:33
alecsok21:36
alecsi have changed to breezy21:37
alecsnow i should run21:37
alecs  sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade21:37
Flannelyeah21:37
alecshmmm21:38
alecsi have some problems21:38
FlannelWhich ones?21:38
alecscould not stat source package list http://old-releases.ubuntu.com breezy/main21:38
alecscould not stat source package list http://old-releases.ubuntu.com breezy/ universe21:39
alecsand all21:39
Flannelalright, paste (here) a single line from your sources.list21:39
Flannel(obviously, not one thats commented out)21:39
alecsloool21:40
alecslet me check something21:40
alecsworks now21:42
alecs:D21:42
alecsmy stupid person has forgot to configure the ppp connection ... and rise up eth021:43
alecsi will run this now21:43
alecssudo apt-get dist-upgrade21:43
alecsnow it works .. i will check those21:45
alecshttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes21:45
Flannelalecs: Once you're upgraded to breezy, you can upgrade to dapper like that page says, you'll need to change your repo URLs again, as old-releases won't have the supported versions.  You should switch to your local mirror for best performance21:46
alecshmmm ..21:47
alecslocated in romania ...21:47
alecsif i recall21:47
alecsftp.iasi.roedu.net is the nearest21:48
alecsBTW ... do you know if developers will include Qmail into the repository ?21:51
Flannel!mirrors21:57
ubottuUbuntu installation CDs can be downloaded from http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com - Mirrors can be found at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive - PLEASE use the !torrents to download Hardy, and help keeping the servers' load low!21:57
alecsok...21:57
alecsstill i will not pass to hardy yet ...21:58
alecswhat sould i change to bring up my eth0 at startup time ?22:26
Eharan_XWcan anyone point me at a good clear guide for deb packaging?  --  i know rpm, and have tried to get my head around deb but it seems really messy22:39
naliothEharan_XW: ask uncle google "debian new maintainers guide"23:00

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