Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS apt problems - how to upgrade f/w?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bo Berglund wrote:

>No prompt to reboot, but I know from past experience that if you
>make a BIG upgrade including kernels it is better to reboot. So that
>is why I did that.

All is well, then.

>Right now following an apt update:
>
>All packages are up to date.

Good.

>So what is in line now is to get up from 20.04.6 to 22.04.x
>(whatever it is now)
>
>And if that works out repeat to go to 24.04.x
>
>I have been reluctant to do this since in October 2023 I did a
>release upgrade on ann Ubuntu 20.04 VPN server at the office and it
>broke the networking system, so I had to struggle getting that
>working again.

Yeah. I've never dared to try it. My way of upgrading is to start
with a fresh installation each time and copy my valued data over.

>Do I need to shut down the server and use GParted to copy the
>partition?

The last comment on this page suggests that you would definitely not
only have to shut it down, but also unmount the drive in order to use
GParted for that:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1518808/cloning-and-restoring-partitions-using-gparted

The very last comment on this page makes it sound awfully easy, too,
although if I were doing this, I'd back up the server big-time before
messing with its partitions:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771251/clone-a-linux-partition-to-a-new-ssd-and-keep-both-partitions-in-grub

-- 
Little Girl

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