[TriLUG] Debian Upgrade

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

With Debian, you don't normally need to be afraid to do an upgrade-in-place.

I've upgraded from Debian 5 Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy -> Jessie without
(many) problems.

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Wesley S. Garrison
Network Engineer
Xitech Communications, Inc.
phone:  (919) 260-0803
fax:       (919) 932-5051
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Brian Grawburg via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

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> I'm ready to upgrade my system to Debian 9.2.1 and would like some
> guidance.
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> I know that simply installing over the existing system is a bad idea and
> so I must wipe my HDD clean and start fresh. It's all my data that I hate
> trying to figure out how to keep and restore. Although I do backup
> important stuff there is lots of material I'd hate to loose but wouldn't
> jump off of the building if I lost it. One thought is to put in a temporary
> slave unit and transfer everything to it then move it back when I've got
> the new OS installed.
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> Oh, I'm thinking of putting Debian 9.0 Cinnamon (32-bit) on a PC for a
> non-Linux user here were I work instead of the full Debian 9. Good idea?
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> Thanks,
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> Brian Grawburg
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> Wilson
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> Sent from a PC running Debian 7, 64-bit Linux and LibreOffice. (No one
> needs to use MS Office!)
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