OS upgrade from bullseye

Setup, Configuration and Use News & Important Changes
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Gents,
After running openhabian-config in openHAB 4.1.1 - Release Build,
I saw a blue message informing me that a new openhabian1.9 has been released based on Debian bookworm and not on old bullseye, and installation via migration is recommended.
I found a description of migration on the forum via:
1.backup on a working version,
2.renaming the backup to initial.zip and uploading it to a new card,
3.modifying the openhabian.conf file by uncommenting the line # initialconfig=/boot/initial.zip

Everything went smoothly and I have a working version of openHAB 4.1.2 - Release Build now but the table after logging in via the terminal still shows bullseye
###############################################################################
############### openhabian ##################################################
###############################################################################

Ip = 192.168.xx.xx

Release = Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Kernel = Linux 6.1.21-v8+

Platform = Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5

Uptime = 0 day(s). 00:03:39

###############################################################################

did something go wrong during the migration process or do I really have an old version and the entire process was performed unnecessarily?

2

I don’t know what instructions you found on the forum and why you used them rather than the official ones which are linked to on the openHABian download page such as the OH4 migration FAQ thread.

Reading those should answer your question. The OS itself is not part of openHABian or openHAB so upgrading doesn’t change anything about it.
Migration means to install a freshly downloaded 1.9 image to a new SD and import the old config there.

3

Thank you. That was thread I followed and your instruction from 1st post

Reinstalling openHABian on Raspberry

Thanks to @mstormi for these instructions:

  • Get a new SD card (preferrably an “Endurance” labelled one) and keep the old one as your fallback
  • Run option 50 to create an OH config backup and copy it to some box of yours
  • Download and flash openHABian 1.8
  • Put the SD in your Windows system and open the first (only) partition. Edit openhabian.conf and set clonebranch=openHAB3. That should result in (latest) OH3 being installed.
  • Also put your backup zip file there, name it initial.zip. That’ll auto-import the config during install.
  • Now put the SD in the Raspi and turn it on. Let openHABian do its install magic.
  • When finally done, login and run openhabian-config menu option 03 to upgrade to OH4

however I adapted instruction to my situation as I did have 4.1.1 so not needed to install OH3 and then upgrade to OH4, I guess?

4

I guess if you strictly followed them you downloaded 1.8 which (obviously, nothing has changed about it) is still bullseye.

5

Nope, as a part of adaptation I downloaded and flashed with
openhabian-raspios32-oldstable-202403151226-crc9a2a57a4.img.xz

6

:roll_eyes:
You should be reading download notes before use.
So what do they say about oldstable ? Guess why it’s named so.

7

OMG dont know how it happened :frowning: please remove my thread and forget about