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Re: Installing newer kernels



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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:21:12AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 19:27 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > Debian 6 is obsolete. You're going to want to do a 
> > backup-wipe-install-restore cycle on both machines and move to Debian
> > 7 
> > (or 8).
> 
> Why not do a dist-upgrade?

Yes. I'd recommend that too. Dist-upgrades work pretty well in Debian.

Backup is still a good idea (upgrade or not :-)

Unless you feel that you have accumulated too much crud by tweaking and
hot-fixing things in perhaps not-so-canonical ways and want to get rid
of all that in one fell swoop, that is.

- -- t
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