On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > > > > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does.
> > > > > > I always found it best to follow Debian's instructions in the > > > Release Notes and/or Installation Instructions of the version you > > > want to upgrade to. AND back up your data before doing anything.. > > > > > > Many times, there's more involved than just simply apt-get update, > > > apt-get upgrade, etc. > > > > > > B > > > > He doesn't want to upgrade from one version to another. He just > > wants to do a normal upgrade in Jessie, that because of where we are > > now, and when he last upgraded, will take it from 8.1 to 8.2. > > Oh. But that's what he said. Others seemed to misunderstand, too. In > any case, if he had read the instructions . . . > > What is it with people and instructions? I know. It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with all the drama. ;-) People who come from Ubuntu don't understand about point releases. Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what it is that they are thinking of. Lisi