On Wed 14 Mar 2018 at 13:03:14 +0000, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:12:51 -0400 > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:15:58AM +0000, Joe wrote: > > > You could literally install any numbered version and upgrade in > > > steps to the current one, though that would be a lot of wasted > > > work. Any version 9.x would upgrade in one step to current, and in > > > the fullness of time (probably at least a year) can be upgraded to > > > the next major version. > > > > That's a wee bit overly optimistic. In practice, you will find it > > rather challenging to upgrade from a version of Debian that has been > > archived (no longer on the regular mirrors, no longer receiving Long > > Term Support). Right now, the oldest release of Debian that is still > > receiving LTS is wheezy (7.x). > > > > I was certainly not suggesting that anyone try it, just that it is > possible, therefore upgrading between any minor versions of a major > version is trivial.
No harm in trying and it's not all that hard to use snapshot.debian.org as an archive to upgtade from squeeze to wheezy. -- Brian.
