Upgrade update
I plan on doing my upgrades this week, but so far so good… I have a (working in vmware/testing) script that will upgrade 2.0-RELEASE to 2.1-CURRENT and so far it does it quite well. The only thing I’m unhappy about is it requires a double-reboot… the installer creates a “fat” initrd image with all of the IDE drivers in it for the first reboot, and then some hooks in rc.local execute on the first reboot to setup the ide-controller settings in /etc/modprobe.conf and then regenerates the initrd image. The next reboot will use the proper module (loading one instead of a dozen or so), and is highly recommended to make sure the script got it right (I don’t anticipate problems as it’s roughly the same code the installer uses).
I’ll be putting it to a real test tomorrow probably when I upgrade the build machine and if that goes well, I’ll probably be going through the rest of the machines to upgrade them all too. I don’t anticipate any major problems. The upgrade script can be downloaded here for those of you interested in testing or upgrading yourself (and testing is very much welcome!).
