Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

Hi!

Am Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:14:53PM -0600, Eric Rostetter schrieb:
> With Live Upgrade, I can install a fresh OS while the machine is

At least this is working with Debian. Except that you can't easily switch back, because the system and applications are update on the running system. (So that's the backside...)

You can do a full upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0 even without rebooting. You just need to reboot for new kernel packages. Although taking more than one step at once (e.g. from 2.0 or 2.1 to 3.0) has been reported not to work as well as from 2.2 to 3.0.

You probably have to change your source.list, but apt-get upgrade will fetch and install you the new OS version.

> I agree you can do updates (install security patches, etc) this way.
> But not a full install or major OS upgrade, AFAIK.

So that statement (without the "AFAIK" :-) is wrong, but of course Debian's apt-get upgrade is not as functional as Live Upgrade, especially that you neither can't install to second environement nor you can't switch back easily if at all.

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