tony, thanks for all this. Looking at the upgrade documentation leaves me thoroughly intimmidated. My major reason for upgrading was to get beyond the current kernel crash that happens a couple 3 times a week. However with my lack of experience, I'd be pretty sure trying the upgrade would be a bigger mess. I'll re-evaluate the situation from time too time especially if/when they stop supporting jessie, and see what happens. Thanks again. Tom Fowle (official wimp!) On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:22:55AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > I know this seems obvious, but did you make a tar archive of /etc in > single user mode? Just doing a file copy to an external drive won't > usually work because file permissions aren't preserved. Most > external drives are formatted as NTFS or FAT32 and are not suited > for file backups. Making a tar archive of /etc is generally safer > and does preserve permissions. This command should work, but if > not, someone will hopefully correct me: > > cd / > tar cf etc.tar etc > > You might want to check the official Jessie release notes here: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes > > I suggest installing something like Screen or tmux, just in case the > upgrade takes longer than planned or somehow leaves you without a > working shell. It is very useful to be able to create a new window > to check configuration files, manuals, web sites, etc. You can > detach, create new windows, etc. Also, keep a script of the output > as sometimes messages and warnings are displayed which you might > miss. You do that with the script command. Run "script" first > before starting the upgrade but after launching screen or tmux. You > want to be especially careful about upgrading your kernel and > probably want to do that separately after the system upgrade, but > follow the guidance in the release notes if in doubt. > > On 11/4/2015 10:38 PM, Tom Fowle wrote: > >Planning to upgrade from wheezie to jessie. > >Backing up to a usb external hard drive, I've done everything under /home > >and /etc. > >Is there anything else I should backup? or other things to be aware of > >before or during the upgrade? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
