• Upgrade Your Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) VPS to Feisty

• Unfortunately, only Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (dapper) is officially supported on our VPS configuration. There is a bug that prevents feisty from booting properly.

  However, there is a way to upgrade to feisty with a workaround. Its a little work, but I ran through it and it seems to work fine.

  Here are the steps:

  1. Rebuild your VPS - this will start back at Ubuntu 6.06 (you'll lose whatever you had already on your vps)
  2. Upgrade it to "edgy". Change the apt-get locations: sed -e 's/dapper/edgy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
  3. apt-get update
  4. apt-get upgrade
  5. apt-get dist-upgrade
  6. Follow the instructions here for the boot problem workaround: http://wiki.vpslink.com/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Fix_Missing_ubuntu-minimal_dependencies_for_Ubuntu_6.10_(Edgy_Eft)
  7. Upgrade from edgy to feisty: sed -e 's/edgy/feisty/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list
  8. apt-get update
  9. apt-get upgrade
  10. apt-get dist-upgrade

  I ran through this setup and it seems to boot properly. If your machine fails to boot after these procedures, you'll need to start from scratch again - rebuild your vps again from the control panel.

• Posted October 05, 2007 15:27 by dave

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