[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 server to latest version? And when has an Ubuntu server "crashed"?

[Steve]

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:13:37 -0000, Alex Birchall <A.Birchall at mdx.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently running a server with Hardy Heron 8.04.  Is it advisable
> to upgrade to Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10 (Karmic Koala)?  Is the upgrade
> a fairly straightforward procedure?
>
> Another question:  The server occasionally crashes, but though I cannot
> connect to the web server it is running nor can I connect to it remotely
> with SSH, I can still ping it and it replies -- so, strictly speaking,
> has it crashed?
>
> Many thanks for any advice received!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex Birchall
>
>
>
>
You can’t/shouldn’t miss versions out when upgrading. You’d really have to  
upgrade to 8.10 then 9.04 to get to 9.10. As 8.04 is a LTS release I’d  
wait until next year for the 10.04 LTS release. Or you could do a clean  
install (on a separate partition).
-- 
Steve