ray carter  wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:18:01 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> Has anybody posted a description of how to upgrade and what to watch
>> for?
>> A link would be very helpful!
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>>
>> bob prohaska
>
> There should be an entry somewhere at raspberrypi.org. I'll explain:
>
> First get installed version up to date:
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get upgrade
>   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (if any packages were skipped in upgrade)
>
> Next - point repositories at 'stretch' vice 'jessie'
>   sudo leafpad /etc/apt/sources.list
>     and replace occurrances of 'jessie' with 'stretch'
>   also edit files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and replace
>     jessie with stretch
>
> Next - go for it:
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get upgrade
>   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>   sudo reboot
>
> That should do it for you. It will take some time since there are a LOT
> of packages and files involved.

Thank you very much! It's more involved than I expected, but it's also
a more drastic upgrade than I was looking for. Seems like the best approach
is to save /home on usb flash and attempt the upgrade. If it flops, then
do a clean install and restore /home.

At this point the pi account is locked on my machine, will that interfere
with upgrading? Seemed to me that the pi account is rather integral to
the system, sort of like root on *bsd.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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