Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: >   My only wish is apt is updated to say something about  the fact > that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still > provide the download/install without we having to manually > intervene. I think¹ that there are

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread R. Ramesh
The expired keys do complicate life but my understanding of the rationale is that the limited key lifetime serves as a sort of contract regarding the integrity of the files. Once a release has been archived it does not fall under that promise from the project any more and so the expired keys

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There > are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose > upgrade path. Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/9/20 3:56 am, Kenneth Parker wrote: My Recommendation, if it isn't too late, is to Install Buster in a separate Partition, and then copy /home files as desired. Reclaim the Wheezy Partition when you are sure that you don't need it anymore. +1 FWIW I'd recommend this course for most

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 12:17 PM R. Ramesh wrote: > My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the > information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and > jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue > copy of the current install

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then directly