Problem upgrading from 6.06.2 LTS to 8.04.1 LTS
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 21 12:54:00 UTC 2008
--- Rich Carreiro <rlcarr at rlcarr.com> wrote:
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net (Leonard Chatagnier) writes:
>
> > If I remember correctly, 6.06.2LTS is Dapper. Have
> you
> > changed your sources.list entries from dapper to
> the
> > next higher version. Sorry, I don't remember if
> it
> > gutsy or if there's another in between. If you go
> the
> > upgrade route you have to upgrade in sequence and
> > after fully upgrading each version which is a real
> > pain.
>
> (1) Going from 6.02.2LTS (Dapper) to 8.04.1LTS
> (Hardy)
> is explicitly supported. Going from LTS to LTS
> is an exception to the "must upgrade through
> each
> intervening version" rule.
> (2) One of the points of "do-upgrade-release" is
> that you
> don't have to mess with sources.list -- the tool
> does it for you (like when you use
> update-manager to
> do a distribution upgrade).
>
I stand corrected and have learned something. Sorry
for the incorrect advice. Thanks for correcting me.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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