18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
10:44 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:18:28 +0000
Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
ยน I've done things like Debian
etch->lenny->squeeze in sequence
without a reboot until the very end, but that was on a simple
single-purpose VPS and to be quite honest I trust Debian's
in-place upgrades a lot more.
As a long time Debian user I agree that upgrading Debian is normally
straightforward but I wouldn't dream of trying to go straight from
etch > squeeze in one step, it needs to be done in stages as Andy says.
From what I've read Ubuntu seems to need re-installing in order to
upgrade between versions safely.
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John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server