Michael Lange wrote: ... > I believe that it is probably a good idea to dist-upgrade Jessie into an > up-to-date state before starting the upgrade to Stretch, but it is > certainly a good idea to do the intermediate steps of upgrading Squeeze > to Wheezy first and then to Jessie before starting the upgrade to Stretch; > with a direct upgrade Squeeze -> Stretch it is very likely (if not > dead-sure) that you won't get far.
jumping versions is usually not supported. i've tried it at times. always have a spare bootable partition or some other media which gives you net access so you can download any new packages needed. (but instead ... ---> much easier to back things up you want to keep, install from a debian installer image and then restore what you want. if you have enough of a gap going back you may want to upgrade underlying partition's file systems (ext2 to ext4 as just one example). songbird
