On Friday 11 September 2015 10:55:24 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > There should be some outcome if you change your software sources from > squeeze to jessie, but I doubt about the core files. > I read this in some other mail from the mailing list, which said to just > change the software source and then run apt-get update followed by apt-get > upgrade. > Also, some mail said about backing up your data and the booting from iso > image is the way. > But make it sure before doing, as I have not done it practically yet! > Good luck!
No, don't. Jumping a version is deprecated. If you want to upgrade rather than reinstall you need to go Squeeze -> Wheezy -> Jessie (6 -> 7 -> 8). And be careful to read the release notes. There was a gotcha fairly recently with upgrades of< I htinbk, udev. > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:39:07AM +0200, ikuzar RABE wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would like to know if there is a way to upgrade my Debian 6 Squeeze > > > to > > > > Debian 8 Jessie in ONE STEP... (bypassing upgrade from 6 to 7). The short answer is no. > > I do not > > find any > > > > > documentations for it. > > > > And I doubt that there will be any. Such upgrade is unsupported. Quite. Lisi > > > > Reco > > -- > Himanshu Shekhar > IIIT-Allahabad > IRM2015006
