Am Freitag, 7. September 2012 schrieb Veljko: > > This is Debian. Since 1997 or so, you have had the ability to > > upgrade from major version n to version n+1 without > > reinstalling. You won't need to reinstall unless you change > > architectures (i.e. from x86_32 to x86_64).
> But, isn't complete reintall safest way? Dist-upgrade can go wrong > sometime. The Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T42 as a Debian Sarge or something like this on my ThinkPad T23. Same with my workstation at work, heck I even recovered from a bit error restore from a hardware raid controller by reinstalling any package that debsums complained about. That should give you an idea of the upgradeability of Debian. I only every installed a new system on 32 => 64 bit switch. And in the not to distant future even that might not be needed anymore. (Yes, I know of the inofficial hacks that may even work without multiarch support, i.e. the website with the big fat blinking warning not to do this;) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201209082006.08167.mar...@lichtvoll.de
