On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > I have a fairly old (just coming up to 4 years) BBB running Debian 7 > which I have kept up to date with security fixes etc. > > It's used to monitor various things on my boat and runs headless with > remote ssh access to manage it. Just about all of the monitoring code > is written in Python and lives in my home directory on the BBB.
root over ssh is now disabled by default, so remember to ssh in as "debian".. > Debian Wheezy is only supported until May 2018 so I need to move to a > newer version. Will I hit any significant issues if I go straight > from Debian 7 (Wheezy) to Debian 9 (Stretch)? > > I intend to simply get the latest Stretch image on microSD and put > that in the BBB (having copied software from the Wheezy of course) and > then install my existing Python code onto that. I'll be doing it > 'locally' (i.e. I'll be on the boat) so swapping microSD cards will be > easy enough and I can hit the power and reset buttons as needed. Debian 9, still has Python 2.7.x available. Debian "10/Buster" "might" drop Python 2.7.x, and only have 3.x available. > Presumably I can use the Stretch IoT (non-GUI) image as I don't need a > GUI on my BBB. As long as you aren't doing anything with "overlays" in the old Debian 7 wheezy image, it should be an easy transition.. Just ping us if you run into any issues. (and keep a spare microSD with your old image. ;) ) Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYjOmjJwd3DzqyJ8zNmyYOpwc2fprsGYP1Ma7hkxdRZWWA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
