debian 3 question

1/27/2015

11/24/2014

Debian 3.0 is a very very old distribution, which is out of support for a long time already. That means you wont get security updates for it anymore.

If you really want to use debian 3 here you can find the ISOs

http://mirror.debianforum.de/debian-iso-archive/woody/i386/

So what kind of information you want to get of the server? Some Hardware specs? Some files saved there?

Does this server serve things directly to the internet?

11/24/2014

ASKER

I want to find out what exact HW is used like HP, IBM or dell and model number.

This server sitting some where in the data center. I don't have any details so far.

11/24/2014

ASKER

How do i find what release installed on my server?

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11/24/2014

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11/24/2014

ASKER

cat /etc/debian_version
3.0

I am not getting what release it is just 3.0

11/24/2014

ASKER

lshw
su: lshw: command not found

11/24/2014

ASKER

in debian 3 there are many releases. how do I find what is my release level?

please advise

Seth Simmons

11/24/2014

how do I find what is my release level?

it would be the second decimal
since yours doesn't have one it is the initial debian 3 release
i have not been able to find a valid site with an iso for that version

11/25/2014

To determine the hardware of the server you might boot from a bootable linux CD like knoppix to run lshw and other hardware detection and diagnostic tools.

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11/25/2014

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11/26/2014

ASKER

Can i able to do in place upgrade for Debian

I have Debian 3 and want to upgrade to 4.

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11/26/2014

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11/27/2014

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11/27/2014

ASKER

Can I able to upgrade from 3.0 to 3.1 and upgrade to 4?

11/27/2014

theoretically yes, but im afraid there are no working and complete repository servers out there anymore which provide the packages for the mentioned distributions.

A few days ive tried to use the jigsaw files to create the debian 3.0 ISO images and it failed due to files missing or wrong on the servers.

So before you try a update be absolutely sure you have a working backup of the server OS and its files.

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11/28/2014

ASKER

I have debian 3.0 but how do i find if it is r1,r2,r3,r4,r5,r6?

cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l

cat /etc/debian_version
3.0

uname -r
2.6.1

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11/28/2014

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11/28/2014

ASKER

I am trying to find the exact image to download and not available.

can you able to locate the exact image location

11/28/2014

ASKER

I went to this site which one is exact match?

http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/\s 3.0 \n \l

cat /etc/debian_version
3.0

uname -r
2.6.1

11/28/2014

Unless you math package versions it is:
3.0_r0 to 3.0_r6 (Woody)