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This article illustrate how to migrate your FOX Board G20 Linux distribution to the new testing Debian 7.0 called Wheezy.
The testing distribution contains packages that haven't been accepted into a stable release yet, but they are in the queue for that. The main advantage of using this distribution is that it has more recent versions of software.
To know more about this new release read the official Debian documentation.
Use a clone of your microSD to try this upgrade (read how to do it).
It's required to set a swap partition using an USB memory key or a swap partition on your microSD.
Format a USB memory key as linux swap using gparted on your Linux PC, plug the USB key in the FOX Board USB port and check with dmesg command on which device it is allocated (usually /dev/sda1).
Activate the memory swop on it typing:
debarm:~# swapon /dev/sda1
Probably your microSD has already a swap partition called swap.
Open the file /etc/fstab and remove the # char from this line:
#/dev/mmcblk0p4 none swap sw 0 0
Save and reboot the FOX by typing:
debarm:~# reboot
In that way the swap partition will be always mounted and active on any boot.
If, for some reason, you want the turn off the swap partition type:
debarm:~# swapoff -a
To turn it on again type:
debarm:~# swapon -a
Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and replace all the words “squeeze” in “wheezy”.
This is the old contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian squeeze main deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
This is the new content:
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian wheezy main deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
Note that the .it. in the urls within the /etc/apt/sources.list file stand for Italy so it might change to your own country's two letter abbreviation.
Be sure that the FOX system time is correct (read how to do) then access to the FOX Board system console in SSH (don't use minicom on the DPI console because it doesn't views well the coulored screens) and type:
debarm:~# apt-get update ... debarm:~# apt-get dist-upgrade ...
Accept all the default option.
When finished remove the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and reboot the board.
debarm:~# rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules debarm:~# reboot ...
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