Re: Re: Great!
  By: Aaron Thomas to bebyx on Sun Jan 03 2021 05:58 pm

 >  be> unstable Ubuntu is that I always had problems when I tried to upgrade Ubuntu version. Actually it just won't update and it
 >  be> crashed, so I had
 >  be> to reinstall Ubuntu (just like Windows).
 > 
 > Come to think of it, I did have a similar problem when I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS. So then I ended up having to
 > re-install all my junk afterwards which was not a smooth transition.
 > 
 >  be> talking about storage. If both have ext4 you are good to go (maybe,
 > 
 > With that being said, it sounds like it might work. I run my BBS on a VPS that only allows me to choose between Ubuntu (a few
 > versions) and CentOS (which is not something I want to try out.) I often compress the BBS & download it so I can work on it on m
 > local machine, then I upload it back to the VPS when I'm done. I've assumed that both machines need to have the same OS, but lik
 > you said - if they have the same file system, it might be just fine.

I started to have problems with the unstable release upgrade of 19.10. I generally use CLI interface. 
When not using a 32 bit version (that hasn't be around for awhile now) a simple command like:
do-release-upgrade

usually works pretty good to get to the stable next release. I've tried other methods but nothing worked. 
My last upgrade from 19.10 with zfs took awhile. 

I have another system I support that started as a Kubuntu 18.something, and a monkey operator upgraded it to ubuntu 19.10. Then the
same monkey operator tried to upgrade it to 20.04 but ... it got stuck. I haven't had the desire to unwind it yet to fix it. 

The system is a baremetal system too.
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