Installing Debian 10 on a system with Debian 8.

[hack3rcon]

Hello,
My system using Debian 8 and I want to install Debian 10 on it. I have two questions:
1- Can I upgrade Debian 8 to Debian 10 directly?
2- "Home" is on a separate partition, If I want to do a fresh install then the "Home" partition need to format or I can use my current Desktop on new Debian?

Thanks.

[Ardouos]

1- Can I upgrade Debian 8 to Debian 10 directly?

No you have to upgrade to 9 first, then 10. Read the release notes to ensure the upgrades go smoothly.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch ... ng.en.html
then
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/ ... ng.en.html

2- "Home" is on a separate partition, If I want to do a fresh install then the "Home" partition need to format or I can use my current Desktop on new Debian?

You can keep your home partition, any issues with config files in /home can be backed up and deleted in the unlikely case that there are any issues.

[hack3rcon]

1- Can I upgrade Debian 8 to Debian 10 directly?

No you have to upgrade to 9 first, then 10. Read the release notes to ensure the upgrades go smoothly.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch ... ng.en.html
then
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/ ... ng.en.html

2- "Home" is on a separate partition, If I want to do a fresh install then the "Home" partition need to format or I can use my current Desktop on new Debian?

You can keep your home partition, any issues with config files in /home can be backed up and deleted in the unlikely case that there are any issues.

Thank you.
I will install Debian 10 and post here if I had any issues.