OP, are you on x86? amd64? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com
> On Feb 9, 2019, at 16:29, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:48:00 +0000 > Paul Sutton <zl...@disroot.org> wrote: > >> On 09/02/2019 02:22, Peter Ehlert wrote: >>> >>> On 2/8/19 11:09 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:06:34 +0000 >>>> Paul Sutton <zl...@disroot.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Updated from Stretch to Buster (non-free) the other day all went fine, >>>>> just undertaken >>>> Why? Buster is still alpha. A lot can still go wrong. Hope it's not >>>> your primary use distro. >>> Why?: 1. migrate now, or later this year when Buster is the new Stable. >>> 2. Newer features. Mate 1.20 is great, so is 1.16 but there have been >>> several "new shiny things" I like. >>> >>> alpha? maybe so: Been using Buster on one machine for 6 months or a >>> year, no issues... none that lasted more than the next update anyway. >>> The last couple months zip. >>> >>> I have other distros available on the machines. My data is always >>> accessible. >>>> >>>>> apt update && apt upgrade >>>> With testing, dist-upgrade is the recommended upgrade procedure. That >>>> would be 'full-upgrade' with apt, if memory serves. Read the >>>> manual for why. >>> >>> my procedure was dead simple: >>> >>> using Pluma: >>> edit both /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/base.list >>>> replace stretch with buster >>> >>> using Synaptic: refresh and update ... took about an hour. >>> >>> reboot and all was good >>> >>>>> today and all seem to go fine, The process seems to be pretty >>>>> painless >>>>> for the most part. >>>> Well I think that's because Debian's alphas are everybody else's betas >>>> or better. >>> true that! packages have to be in pretty good shape to get to the >>> Buster repo >>> excellent vetting process >>> >>> I have a spare netbook, which was running stretch, not really being used >>> for much as I have my main desktop / netbook for general use / work. >>> However why not upgrade and test. I am sure given the comments to this >>> thread with regard to no problems etc is of great comfort to the >>> developers. >>> >>> I can't do much, as I am probably not technical enough. I can run the >>> update commands, and see what happens, I have an idea on how to pipe >>> these messages to a file. This can be shared and hopefully be useful. >>> >>> If I share issues here others may be able to say if they have the same >>> issue. For the most part we can discuss the experiences here and >>> confirm issues. >>> >>> The about myself tool still comes up with 'unknown error' when trying to >>> apply changes. >>> >>> xfce menu -> debian - applications -> system - administration - about myself >>> >>> enter info - apply - password - unknown error >>> >>> >>> Paul > > Thanks to both Paul & Peter for their dist-upgrade reasons -- some > practical, others "bright shiny new toy." > > As for me, I'm the patient, very practical type. Debian is my distro > of choice after almost 20 years of using other Linuxes because of its > philosophy of stability and bug-freeness above all else. I'll wait > until Buster is in Release Candidate status before testing it in a VM. > Normally, I wouldn't bother since I usually only upgrade every other > release after LTS ceases on my primary install. But this time, Buster > includes support for AMD's Ryzen APU series which a notebook I'm > considering purchasing around summertime uses. > > Thanks, again. You never can have too much info. ;-) > > B >
