In the past, I have found I have had greater success by doing “direct” upgrades, skipping intermediate releases, rather than by following the officially-supported path of going via every intermediate release.ĭoing a skip upgrade avoids exposure to any packaging bugs which were present only in intermediate release(s). You might want to read this writeup of a similar upgrade:
Debian 8 install#
You may not find this easy (I see you haven't) but Debian provides easy way to do this repeatedly.Īs I mentioned elsewhere, I have remotely upgraded system from 5 to 11 with only small outages and without need for reinstall on a remote location.Īnd I'm very glad Debian has this possibility and I'm really sorry people don't use this and recommend clean install instead. Or I can split the job into multiple small updates without needing of complete reinstall, cutover etc as I did multiple times. If it is a business system and you can't have 2 hours of downtime you build a new system completely and do a cutover when the new system is ready resulting in no downtime. In fact, splitting the job into more easier steps makes the job easier.Ī clean install takes about 2 hours, and you are guaranteed to not have leftover incompatible config files which would cost you way more time than that futzing about with broken stuff. 8-9-10-11 is not one step, and there are packages installed on most systems that have had major changes.
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