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Okay, thought experiment time: how far back can you do this with Linux? I mean, obviously with enough effort you can make Yggdrasil to modern era, but like, wit
by jldugger 7y ago
Okay, thought experiment time: how far back can you do this with Linux? I mean, obviously with enough effort you can make Yggdrasil to modern era, but like, without dropping into a root shell?
I think you can probably get from ubuntu's release to current. But I also happen to know they 'supported' upgrading from Debian to warty warthog. And I've done a few Debian OS upgrades, so that's also doable. Possibly all the way back to 1.1 released in 1996. Can you upgrade from something else to Debian?
- ars 7y agoI've been upgrading Debian continually since around 2000 (don't remember exactly). It's even the same disk image, migrated to various disks (using mdadm), expanded, converted to ext3 from ext2. But not without pain, I've almost always needed to manually intervene and fix configuration files. So you need root shell.