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Italianoetching the gargoyle - preparation
I took the chance of a quiet Saturday morning to start testing the upgrade path from sarge to etch. The target machine was gargoyle, a FTP server with a minimum set of packages installed, and it was chosen to discover the most relevant problems I could encounter with the other boxes I own (my setups are quite similar).
The only mayor issue outlined in the release notes is the need to upgrade the kernel before the full upgrade takes place. The box run a 2.4.27 kernel, so I needed to upgrade to a 2.6.8 kernel. As far as I could test, the via_rhine driver shipped with the official debian kernel sources is broken, so I used a vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel to have my D-Link network card working.
Now that everything is in place, I'm ready...
