Upgrading Debian 4 with Plesk 9.2.1 to Debian 5 with Plesk 9.5.2

[PSi_101]

Hi, seeing as Debian has dropped security support for 4, i'm looking to upgrade one of our servers from Debian 4 with Plesk 9.2.1 to Debian 5 with Plesk 9.5.2.
I was planning to upgrade Plesk first, then followed by Debian which i'm guessing will be the proper procedure. Has anyone done anything like this before or have any insights into any other better method?

Thanks

 

[karesmakro]

Yes I tried this on a machine, which was shutdown a month later. This was only for my experience.
But the better way is to make a distupgade first, because the plesk packages are automatically updated while you make your distupgrade.
Follow this instructions: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-a-debian-etch-system-server-and-desktop-to-debian-lenny
There is no guarantee!

regards

 

[kevin anderson]

Once I modify my sources.list to use lenny, I generally add:
deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_9.5.2 lenny all

Don't upgrade all the way to 9.5.2 first though, as a known bug is that if the /var/lib/dpkg/status file shows 9.5.2 already installed (etch version), plesk won't upgrade to the lenny 9.5.2 version. Upgrade to 9.3, and then do the dist upgrade w/ the sources.list referencing 9.5.2