rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Chiming in from the peanut gallery: My preference is to obtain a new (to me) > system, install the version of the OS I want on it, get it working, get > comfortable with it, then migrate my data to the new machine.
... > I have very little tolerance for not having a working system of some sort at > all times. You could solve this entirely by buying another disk, and swapping boot between them as necessary. Honestly, stable=>stable in place upgrades is one of the crowning achievements of Debian. (Others include the package management tools, and the sheer number of available packages, and the security team.) -dsr-
