[plug] upgrading from 6.06 to 8.04 ubuntu

[Daniel Pittman]

"Keith Bawden" <keith at bawdo.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 17:09, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au> writes:
>>> Keith Bawden wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 18:43, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>>>>> Rob Dunne <rob.dunne at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I was trying to use the update-manager to upgrade from 6.06 to 8.04
>>>>
>>>> I'm not an Ubuntu user but that seems like a big jump to be making...
>>>
>>> It is, but it's supported. LTS to LTS is a well supported upgrade
>>> path.
>>
>> It isn't, really.  That is a smaller distance than Debian/oldstable to
>> Debian/stable, for instance, or from RHEL4 to RHEL5.  Just sayin'.
>
> I've never actually done a RedHat upgrade, and did not know their even
> was a dist-upgrade type of thing... 

You could always do one using the CD or DVD and a reboot; apparently yum
can even run them online these days.  Assuming you have a week to wait
for it to calculate out the transaction and all.[1]

> Then again I've only ever used RHEL in production and have never done
> a dist-upgrade on an in production Debian host, and don't think I ever
> will.
>
> As for the distance from 6.x to 8.x I would have thought it was
> further than a change from 4.x to 5.x, but then again 2 + 2 = 5 with
> really big values of 2 [1] ;-)

Heh. ;)  Seriously, though, the distance is 2 years -- not a huge amount
of time, all things considered.

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Actually, only ~ 4 hours on a very modern server, when we got one
     done at work recently.