[ubuntu-cloud] [ec2ubuntu] Re: [Correction]: Refreshed UEC Images of 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

[Scott Moser]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Darren Govoni wrote:

> Scott,
>  Is it possible to perform a system update to the prior 10.04 AMI
> release on a running instance (EBS) and get in sync that way?

It is possible to update an EBS instance.  If you're running a previous
ami , say
  us-east-1 ami-2d4aa444 ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20100427.1
and you want to get to
  us-east-1 ami-1437dd7d ubuntu-lucid-10.04-i386-server-20100827

This will essentially be the same as 'apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade'.

The one thing that is different is that you have to change the kernel that
you're running.  That can only be done on EBS root instances, and how to
do it is documented at:
http://ubuntu-smoser.blogspot.com/2010/05/ubuntu-1004-lts-lucid-lynx-available-in.html

Scott