Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): > [...] > To recommend this [upgrading] to a new user, might not be a good > idea. I've been at it since the days of Slackware install via a pile > of floppies. As noted previously, there will be a proper upgrade > installer released when Jessie is officially stable. That would be > far better.
Now this might be a slip of the pen, but what is the "proper upgrade installer"? Is it different from apt-get dist-upgrade? There is/will be an official installer-from-scratch soon, already available as weekly snapshots (and now a release candidate IIRC). I've tried this on one of my machines just to check it out. That's a different animal. I've upgraded all my machines to jessie or sid (one from squeeze, via wheezy of course), except for my "server", the one that archives everything. I find it helps to have two root partitions, one containing the previous distribution as a fallback. It means you can jog your memory as to how things were done before, and acts as a backup of your old configuration. I don't think this is at all unusual, or brave. Bear in mind that you're going to see all the corner cases here, and nothing about the successes, except in passing. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150209162842.gb32...@alum.home
