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> Prerequisites: > - about 6 hours, excluding download time Why bother with an in-place upgrade? It should only take a couple of hours to simply blow away the
by bstpierre 14y ago
> Prerequisites:
> - about 6 hours, excluding download time
Why bother with an in-place upgrade? It should only take a couple of hours to simply blow away the system, install debian from scratch, and then restore config/data/$HOME from a backup.
Having done stuff like this in the past, I can say that it's an interesting science project, but you generally end up with a Frankenstein's-monster sort of system with "interesting quirks" that are always lurking to bite you later.
- compsciphd 14y agodepending how big your backup is, can take a while (copying to or from a 2TB disk takes a long time). With that said, probably easier overall as dont have to babysit it at all.