Problem upgrading from 6.06.2 LTS to 8.04.1 LTS

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- 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