Upgrade 6.06 LTS --> 8.04 LTS

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday 18 October 2007 13:23, Michael Hipp wrote:
> My understanding is that the next version of Ubuntu (8.04?) will be an
> LTS release.
>
> What will be the upgrade procedure/policy from the current LTS release?
>
> - Can I upgrade in one step from 6.06 -> 8.04?
>
> - Or will I have to do 6.06 -> 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04?
>
> Hopefully the former.
>
> (I'm only speaking of server releases, not desktop.)

The plan is 6.06 -> 8.04.  I recently did a 6.06 -> 7.10 upgrade as an 
experiment and I was able to get there, but not easily.  There's a lot of 
work to be done, so personally, I'm not holding my breath.

Actually 6.06 -> 6.10 -> 8.04 would be substantially easier because then the 
sysv-init to upstart transition is done before you leap into the unknown.

Scott K