> 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

The major downside (as I see it) of going with a new install is that you
loose whatever additional packages you may have installed over time - so
you need to add them again.

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