Update to Armbian Stretch

[Goskum]

Hi

 

I have an Orange Pi PC  running "ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i".

Can I update to Armbian Strech kernel 4.14 directly without lose of data and configurations? How can I do it? Thanks.

[hello_world.c]

I want to do the same thing. Please, is it possible? I know it will be dangerous and probably break things so I will only do it on a clone of my current system, and fix issues myself. But I'd like to know if anybody has done it.

[Igor]

Kernel 3.4.y is too old for running Stretch or Bionic hassle free. You need to update a kernel first, while new kernel have different settings and support level (video acceleration is n/a) ...

[hello_world.c]

Yes, I went the fresh install route, using apt-clone to restore all packages and then copying over the configuration for all services bit-by-bit, converting them as needed. Quite some work, but now the box is running better than ever!