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

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 6/23/2011 2:03 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> When a release becomes "End Of Life" the repository is moved off the
> main servers, so when you try to upgrade from an old non-supported
> release to another non-supported release it all kinda goes a bit
> wrong. We should fix this!

Can't this be fixed by simply using a CD update? I don't know if the
later is related but I'm going to reply in this fashion anyways :P

> Finally as others have suggested you could put a 9.10 CD in the drive
> and upgrade using that, but I've never found that very reliable, and
> as previously mentioned that still only gets you as far as another EOL
> release.

I have to agree here, I don't think the updater on the CD got any good
till about 10.10, I can't remember what changes happened but I do
remember there being an improvement over the iteration before it.