> Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what > some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time > it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully > up-to-date Lenny system).
Based on upgrades of earlier releases (haven't upgraded anything to squeeze yet), you are looking at hours, not minutes. My record is 13 hours for an etch to lenny upgrade. On a 2Mbit connection only a small proportion of that time was spent downloading packages. The system was an AMD Duron 650MHz of 2000 vintage, and laden with Gnome, KDE, and various server packages including cups, exim, apache, hplip, moinmoin. (Note to self: purge unwanted software before the next upgrade). Even on much newer/faster and less loaded systems I don't recall any upgrade taking much less than an hour. You need to be on hand during the upgrade, as configuration questions can occur at any time. Also if you rely on the system for anything important, you need to allow time to diagnose and fix the fallout i.e. breakages that aren't covered in the release notes. It happens unfortunately. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110218093549.ga6...@rimmer.esmertec.com
