Edgy -> Hardy Upgrade, suggestions?

[Derek Broughton]

James Cummings wrote:

> 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?  

The repositories can be found somewhere, archived, but they're definitely
not being updated.

> 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

Only the Edgy-to-feisty-gutsy-hardy path is supported.  If you wanted to
leave it that long between updates the recommended path was to install the
LTS version (dapper) and upgrade _that_ directly.

> 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).

It's a VM.  Clearly that's going to be a good size, but is it conceivably
possible that you can copy the entire VM to a better location and practice
the upgrade?
-- 
derek