On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 12:17 PM R. Ramesh <rram...@verizon.net> wrote: > My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the > information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and > jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue > copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then > directly upgraded to Stretch (9). > > I had to iterate a couple of times looking to fix broken packages, but > at the end, I had stretch working fine. The biggest trouble I had was > dist-upgrade fail as it could not remove some packages. I had to force > remove and reboot before dist-upgrade worked. After that it was very > easy to upgrade to Buster. However there was some hickups with dbus > connections and commands took a long time. A couple of reboots and force > removal and reinstall of a couple of packages, everything worked (I think) >
First, let me date myself: My Computer Career began in Aug, 1973. My first Linux was Yggdrasil Plug and Play Linux, the only one I know of, which maintained /usr/src for the GNU Commands, as well as the Linux Kernel. That said, Wheezy is *way* too far away from Buster! For example, "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes. (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). My Recommendation, if it isn't too late, is to Install Buster in a separate Partition, and then copy /home files as desired. Reclaim the Wheezy Partition when you are sure that you don't need it anymore. Good Luck! Kenneth Parker
