Re: Bookworm on "Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2", OK?

On 30/11/2024 00:23, Chris Townley wrote:

On 29/11/2024 22:49, Chris Green wrote:

I'm currently running Bullseye on a Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2
but I'd quite like to move to Bookworm if I can.
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It's headless and has a 'lite' installation, it's not doing very much
that pushes its processing power so should be OK from that point of
view.
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I can't quite remember why I installed Bullseye rather than Bookworm,
there must have been some sort of reason but now I can't really see
what that might have been! :-)
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 There is, of course no supported way to move from Bullseye to bookworm, other than full reinstall.
 Even though they used to give notes on how to do it previously. then don't for this move. I would recommend a full reinstall anyway!

I've used this guide on dozens of Pi's running both 32 bit and 64 bit Bullseye and have not had any problems:-
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-os-bullseye-to-bookworm/
However, this gives you a like-for-like upgrade with all the same things installed as before, but updated - which is how I like it.
The reason the Raspbian people don't want you do this, is they have made some big changes to the packages and the way Bookworm is set up, and while you could reproduce these after an in-place upgrade, it's far easier to start from scratch with a new image.
Some of the major changes are:-
* rsyslog not installed, only journald
* Network Manager for setting up networking instead of dhdcp/wpa
* Wayland installed by default, although can revert to X11
If you are running the Lite version the last one wont be an issue.
In the end it comes down to the choice continuing to do things the way they've been since the Pi 1, or following Raspbian's currently supported new way.
---druck