can't upgrade from 2.0.5... please help

[ahab]

Hi,

I haven't updated my bubba2 for a while and therefore I'm still on 2.0.5, now I see that the latest firmware is 2.5.1.1 and I want to upgrade.

I've tried the web update but since I seem to have changed the sql root password the update fail. When I log on via ssh I can't update either. I've tried the following commands as a super user;

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
aptitide dist-upgrade

Since I don't know linux I don't know which command is the correct one, nor in which order I should issue them to upgrade.

I get the following results;

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bubba:/home/andreas# apt-get update
Get:1 http://update.excito.org marielle Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://update.excito.org upstream_etch Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://update.excito.org marielle Release
Hit http://update.excito.org upstream_etch Release
Ign http://update.excito.org marielle/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://update.excito.org upstream_etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://update.excito.org marielle/main Packages
Hit http://update.excito.org upstream_etch/main Packages
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org etch Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://ftp.se.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Err http://ftp.se.debian.org etch/main Packages
  404 Not Found [IP: 130.239.18.138 80]
Fetched 2B in 2s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz  404 Not Found [IP: 130.239.18.138 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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bubba:/home/andreas# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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bubba:/home/andreas# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.

Can anyone please help me with some pointers on how to upgrade? All help is appreciated.

[RandomUsername]

IIRC, 2.5 requires a fresh install due to some significant changes to the code base.

You can back up the setting from the web interface and modify the installer config so it doesn't format your data partition so the level of disruption should be minimal. You might want to backup your SQL databases as well.

[ahab]

Thank you for your assistance.

I searched for an instruction of how to reinstall the bubba and found the following tutorial; http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/R ... ubba2_/_B3. It worked like a charm. So now I'm on 2.5.1.2