Trying it out on home computer first, but want to do it on pente server also. Not sure why I want to do it on pente, maybe it would be better to just figure out how to stay with security patches on sarge for awhile.
Issues
did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, all went well until mysql-server-5.0. I hadn't really wanted to move to mysql 5 but here we go. It hung on "stopping msyql". I noticed my /var file partition was full and cleaned that up but still it wouldn't go. Tried killing it, removing it and reinstalling, still not good. eventually determined it needed kernel 2.6 to run, i thought that by moving to etch i got that by default but not.
So apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp starts and fails, can't remember exactly what for but i had to apt-get remove udev and reinstall it. then it installed everything.
upon reboot though grub complained of error 15, couldn't find boot image. somehow root = (hd0,13) needed to be root = (hd0,12), and also my hard drive went from hdg to hdc. After fixing that in grub menu I was able to get in. Then of course none of my files systems were mounted since they are now on hdc, so I modified /etc/fstab to fix that, and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooted, all was well.
now however it seems that randomly my hard drive is either assigned to hdc or hdg, and my cd drive is hdg or hdc.
In the middle of all this my keyboard stops working and mouse goes crazy. issue seems to be with my belkin kvm switch i use for switching between computers.
-dweebo
