Hello, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:58:45PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 13:03:14 +0000, Joe wrote: > > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > > That's a wee bit overly optimistic. In practice, you will find it > > > rather challenging to upgrade from a version of Debian that has been > > > archived (no longer on the regular mirrors, no longer receiving Long > > > Term Support). Right now, the oldest release of Debian that is still > > > receiving LTS is wheezy (7.x). > > > > I was certainly not suggesting that anyone try it, just that it is > > possible, therefore upgrading between any minor versions of a major > > version is trivial. > > No harm in trying and it's not all that hard to use snapshot.debian.org > as an archive to upgtade from squeeze to wheezy.
Indeed; since snapshot.debian.org goes all the way back to woody in 2005, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to put that in your /etc/apt/sources.list and take a potato system up through woody, sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, to wheezy then switch to the normal mirrors to go to jessie and beyond. Although it'd probably take a lot longer than just reinstalling. :) Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
