Going from debian to ubuntu with sources.list , apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

[Adam McGreggor]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, J F wrote:

> Going from debian to ubuntu with
>
> sources.list , apt-get update; apt-get upgrade

[...]

> How likely is it that I will be able to keep working after
> doing this?
>
> Has anyone done it?

I tried on a freshly-build UML VDS Sarge install; it bombed out on a few
things, which quite frankly, I couldn't be arsed fixing after about the
11th attempt to get things going: on a bog-standard Sarge netinstall'd
box, i was getting similar issues, so can't really say it was down to
either UML, or VDS.

If you do try it, the first thing I can say is make sure your Kernel's
>2,6 : you'll need it for other bits.


> Will I lose my settings and other user files?

Depends where you've saved them and so on; I bung local edits into RCS,
so it's not *too* much of a biggie when installers go and try to
over-write (or I choose the wrong option in Debconf).

If you're bothered about them, back them up; you can also diff
post-install (assuming it works).