safe dist-upgrade cubietruck

[.mike.]

Hallo,

 

i have an old istallation of armbian and it's working perfect , thank you Igor for your work..!

 

i want to upgrade my stable debian wheezy without breaking nothing :p 

 

the current version of armbian is : Linux cubietruck 3.4.104-sunxi #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 17 16:13:30 CEST 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux

and the : /etc/apt/sources.list

   deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
   deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free

   deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
   deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

   deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
   deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

 

i use only transmission-deamon, netatalk and aria2

 

thank you

[Igor]

3 hours ago, .mike. said:

debian wheezy

 

3 hours ago, .mike. said:

3.4.104-sunxi #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 17 16:13:30 CEST 2014

Such upgrade path was never tested, no warranty, ... but it might work. Consider that we don't support Wheezy or Jessie. It's too troublesome/time consuming.

I would strongly suggest you to migrate on Debian Stretch (start from a clean build) with kernel 4.19.y

[.mike.]

thanks igor,

 

of course it's impossibile support all release, but IF i want to try to upgrade to Stretch what command i have to do..?

 

i change the source.list and the system will upgrade, but i'm worryed about the kernel...

 

if it doesen't work i'll reinstall the system from zero

[Igor]

14 minutes ago, .mike. said:

if it doesen't work i'll reinstall the system from zero

Rather do that.

 

Upgrading to Stretch will not work without upgrading kernel. 3.4.y is too old for Stretch ... well if you don't have systemd than it might even work. Try.

[.mike.]

i have init...

i'm thinking to upgrade the kernel and then upgrade the distro, but i don't know how to "easy" upgrade the kernel

is there a repository or a package .deb whit newer kernel.?

 

thank you

[Igor]

update to the lastest, to get latest armbian-config (or install from our repository by hand apt install armbian-config), then change kernel to NEXT (system -> alternative kernels) and you are done. Then you need to conduct a distribution upgrade which is out of our power. You will need to replace wheezy with jessie or stretch in our /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list