[YLUG] Upgrading best-practice

[Stephen Patterson]

On 08 Jun 10, Stephen Patterson (steve at patter.me.uk) wrote:
> On Mon, June 7, 2010 10:28 pm, Steve Almond wrote:
> > Hi
> all,
> > 
> > I'm almost embarrassed to mention it, as it
> sounds horribly un-techie,
> > but my current Linux-based problem is
> regards upgrading. More
> > specifically, I want to upgrade a
> headless server from Ubuntu 10.4 on
> > two partitions (/ and /home)
> to Debian (or Ubuntu 10.10 or whatever) on
> > at least two
> partitions. I've looked at it a couple of times, but my
> > research
> only gets so far before it bogs down in partitioning scheme
> >
> dogma, upgrading verses installing, worries about upgrading config
> files
> > while keeping settings, etc.
> >      I'd appreciate
> a pointer towards a reasonably-definitive
> > guide/source of info,
> if such a thing exists. If anyone else has a
> > similar question,
> then maybe it might also be an topic for a technical
> > session -
> not that I can attend on Mondays in term-time, but it's not
> > just
> about me!

OK that failed (thanks squirrelmail) but was going to say:

I've had a few successful debian upgrades by adding the new dist to 
/etc/apt/sources.list then running "aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade"

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