Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch

From	songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch
Date	2017-03-28 19:20 +0200
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Michael Lange wrote:
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> I believe that it is probably a good idea to dist-upgrade Jessie into an
> up-to-date state before starting the upgrade to Stretch, but it is
> certainly a good idea to do the intermediate steps of upgrading Squeeze
> to Wheezy first and then to Jessie before starting the upgrade to Stretch;
> with a direct upgrade Squeeze -> Stretch it is very likely (if not
> dead-sure) that you won't get far.

  jumping versions is usually not supported.

  i've tried it at times.  always have a spare
bootable partition or some other media which 
gives you net access so you can download any
new packages needed.  (but instead ... --->

  much easier to back things up you want to keep,
install from a debian installer image and then
restore what you want.

  if you have enough of a gap going back you may
want to upgrade underlying partition's file systems 
(ext2 to ext4 as just one example).

  songbird

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Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
  Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-03-04 23:20 +0100
    Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 01:50 +0100
      Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-05 15:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch cbannister@slingshot.co.nz - 2017-03-27 18:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 21:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch kAt <giathnygeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-27 23:40 +0200
            Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-03-28 00:00 +0200
              Re: Upgrading Jessie to Stretch songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-28 19:20 +0200
    Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-05 04:30 +0100
      Re: Issues with KDE from Debian Stretch [was: Upgrading Jessie to  Stretch] Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-03-06 03:00 +0100

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