On Fri, 17 May 2024 17:07:58 -0700 Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote:
> Hmmm. > > I think I'm going to try something I don't think I have done before: > a major Linux version OS upgrade, performed in place. Debian 11 -> > 12, in my case. This is just my laptop, no services anyone else cares > about. Debian is one of the easiest in-place upgrades, if not the easiest, aside from rolling releases. My home server, currently Debian 12, started life as Debian 6. There have been drive transplants and drive cloning, 3.5" HDD to NVMe SSD in the most recent incarnation. And I had to reinstall the base OS a couple of times, and then restore files from backups, for reasons unrelated to the upgrade process. Functionally, if not technically, it's an unbroken line. Always do your backups, of course, but Debian was designed from the start to be upgraded in place. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@driftwood.blu.org https://driftwood.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
