On 15.7.19 07:43, Chris Schram wrote:
> On 2019-07-15, Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:27:45 +0000 (UTC), Chris Schram 
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>> Now the question: What have I been doing in my backups since early 2018
>>> that finally came back and bit me in the butt? I'd like to do an in situ
>>> upgrade to Buster pretty soon, but I won't proceed with that until I
>>> learn what I've been doing wrong.
>>>
>>  Haven't I read recommendations to do a clean install of Buster rather
>> than trying to upgrade by changing the repository list...
>>
>>  It's just the cost of a SD card and a few hours (well, it is if
>> installing Raspbian via NOOBS , which I did a few days ago onto two SD
>> cards) -- and leaves you with your current SD card for use if something
>> doesn't upgrade properly.
>>
> My main justification for wanting to attempt a "dirty" upgrade is that
> over time I have made many poorly documented changes. Yeah, my bad, but
> I have not heard of any upgrades of this type that have gone wrong.
>
> BTW, SD card is not in my current vocabulary. My current system started
> out when I used Etcher to copy the image directly to a WD Pi Drive.


I just did the upgrade, and all went well. I checked the old
release, changed the repositories.

I just did 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'.
The operation took nearly 3 hours on a Pi 2 and a 100 Mb/s net.

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