How to upgrade from warty to hoary...

Fri Apr 1 08:34:49 UTC 2005

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:21 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there a way to accomplish that? I don't want to install a new system, 
> just to upgrade my existing warty, possibly without downloading a CD 
> image, just by means of apt-get or something like that.
> 
> On the other hand, are there any risks in this operation? Should I 
> really install a totally new system?

It's one of the best features of Debian and Debian-based systems like
Ubuntu that such upgrades are possible:

See:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GuideToHoary/