A Cut To Debian Bullseye Upgrade

My Asus laptop is a backup to my desktop Ubuntu workhorse. It has been running debian buster for a while now and I found time to upgrade it today in fact this evening after work. I thought it's going to be a 2, 3 hour download and then buster to bullseye.

So I updated buster first. That's #apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.

To upgrade to debian 11 - bullseye i have to edit /etc/apt/source.list. This edit is a matter of changing "buster" instances in the text to "bullseye". I was prompted to also change "buster-xx" to bullseye-security. Nice catch there. This will point me to the upgrade mirrors.

Then I issued the command: #apt update. This will update the index to the new mirrors.

Then I typed: #apt upgrade. This will download the minimal packages.

Then to take that leap to debian 11 I typed: #apt full-upgrade. This is the main upgrade process.

All the while my laptop kept sleeping and I try to catch it by disturbing the mouse pad. But at some crucial part I fell asleep. By the morning, I started the laptop to find that I can boot the operating system but I can't login. Somehow the user account is not working after the upgrade. I really don't have time for this bulls*t. So I got my hands on a usb stick and dowloaded debian 11 via transmission. Done after 2 minutes. I used the startup application to make myself a bootable stick of debian 11.

I restart the Asus laptop and interrupted POST using the delete key. I boot the usb stick with debian 11. I installed debian using the straightforward way. In the course of the install I encrypted the hard drive. I finished the install by logging in to gnome. I opened the terminal and installed libreoffice.

I did the install by the root account. #su root. Since I installed it I know the root password. The sudo command doesn't recognize me (user). I have to edit sudoers file. This is for the next blog though.

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