howto upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 (and newer) today (june 2011)

[Nils Kassube]

Gilles MISSONNIER wrote:
> I should have done this a while ago but... here I am now, seems like
> that 9.04 is so old that it can't even upgrade itself...
> 
> update-manager -c
> says that 10.04.2 LTS is available,
> but it can't get it...

If you really want to do an online-upgrade you could have a look at this 
page: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades>.

However, as you will probably want to use 10.04 LTS or even 11.04, that 
would involve 2 to 4 upgrade cycles consuming a considerable amount of 
time. I would recommend to decide which version you really want to use 
now and then make a fresh install of that version. You can keep your 
home directory if you select manual partitioning and don't let the 
installer format the partitions. Probably I don't need to tell you that 
you should make a backup of your valuable data first. And please read 
the release notes of the new version to avoid unpleasant surprises.


Nils