Upgrading old directadmin installation

[ytec]

Hi,

I have several old direct admin installations which need upgrading. I need to upgrade the host system from Debian 4 to Debian 5 and I need to upgrade Direct Admin from 1.33.6 to 1.362000. I'm very adept at maintaining Debian, but I've never used Direct Admin before.

Are there things I need to do before I do this? What is the best sequence of steps? Can I expect problems?

Also, I can remember licenses being for a specific OS version. The license page in the direct admin installation doesn't say anything about that, though. Did I remember it incorrectly? Can I just upgrade to Debian 5 without license problems?

Thanks.

 

[scsi]

You can upgrade directadmin with no problems.

As far as changing the os, you need to request an os change for debian 5.0.

Debian 3.x/4.x are the same license but 5.x is different one.

Just email directadmin and request the os change on your license.

 

[ytec]

And what do I update first, Direct Admin or Debian? I mean, if I update Debian, I can imagine things change to much for Direct Admin to understand.

 

[tomtom901]

And what do I update first, Direct Admin or Debian? I mean, if I update Debian, I can imagine things change to much for Direct Admin to understand.

I'd say first let the license be changed, and then upgrade, but there is some kind of cron running that checks with Directadmin for license info. I believe there is an option to change the license info realtime, so you might want to check that with DA Support.