Edgy -> Hardy Upgrade, suggestions?

[Jim Rosser]

I cannot answer any of the other questions but i can tell you that yes. Edgy
Eft is no longer supported, it ended in 04/25/08.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM, James Cummings <
james+ubuntu at cummingsfamily.org.uk <james%2Bubuntu at cummingsfamily.org.uk>>wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> I need to upgrade a server machine which has sat stable (and protected
> behind a firewall) using Edgy Eft.  I want to upgrade it to Hardy
> Heron and am wondering the 'best' way to go about it.  What I'm
> particularly concerned about is this is a VMWare virtual machine,
> halfway around the world from me, so I don't want to get into a
> situation where it has rebooted or killed my ssh session
> unnecessarily.
>
> 1) It doesn't seem to want to do any updates any more.. are edgy
> repositories now no more?  I wanted to install 'screen' as a
> potentially useful tool prior to the upgrade. How does this affect
> upgrading?
> 2) Is there a way to skip steps and move directly to hardy or
> something, or do I have to do each upgrade of edgy  -> feisty -> gutsy
> ->hardy
> 3) Should I just negotiate with the people there to have someone wipe
> the VM and start again with a fresh Hardy install? Rather than try an
> in-place upgrade?  While this is possible it is politically
> frustrating (the VM is donated to a not-for-profit academic
> organisation).
> 4) Anything else you can think of that I should be concerned with?
> (Obviously the machine contents will be backed up before upgrade.)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> -James
>
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Jim Rosser
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