Debian stable to testing upgrade

[John Wheat]

der.hans wrote:
> Am 10. Dec, 2007 schwätzte John Wheat so:
>
> moin moin John,
>
>> To do this upgrade should the procedure be done from a console with no X
>> server running or does it matter these days? I found release notes for
>> Sarge to Etch that mentioned I should upgrade the kernel prior to the
>> dist-upgrade would that still apply in Etch to Lenny. I am not concerned
>> if the whole install gets hosed as Etch is installed on a drive I use
>> only for testing purposes .  I just want to  be sure the  procedure is
>> done with the smallest chance for human induced error as possible.
>
> I really haven't run anything except stable for quite a while.
>
> When I do dist-upgrades I make sure I have whatever I'm currently running
> upgraded to the most recent version of whatever it is, then I run the
> upgrade. Sometimes I'll reboot or restart X if significant changes 
> came in
> during the last upgrade, but usually I just run with it to see what
> happens.
>
> A couple of Ubuntu upgrades had problems due to changing X during the
> upgrade, but otherwise I really haven't had issues until I've done 
> several
> major upgrades without restarting X.
>
> Theoretically going to testing is the same as any other upgrade except
> that it might be broken.
>
> I'd suggest waiting until mid-day, then checking resources like the 
> bot in
> #debian to see if there are any known problems with testing that day.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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Thank you for your help. I still haven't decided If I really want to go 
to testing as I haven't run into anything I cannot do so far with stable.
@vampirepenguin, Thank you as well.