<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/29 Dr. Johan P. Prinsloo <<a href="mailto:biocura@telkomsa.net">biocura@telkomsa.net</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Whatever you do, do not try doing an on-line upgrade, because it jst keeps failing with a variety of error messages. 9.04 did not give one bit of trouble, but it seems an on-line upgrade with 9.10 is not going to work. </blockquote></div> what I normally do is: * switch to my karmic sources.list mv sources.list sources.list.jaunty ln -s sources.list.karmic sources.list * apt-get update * apt-get dist-upgrade -d this just downloads everything needed which is like 2-3GB for me I start doing this at about RC time: every day when I get at work I start downloading, it stops when I switch my laptop off when going home but the next day I just start it again. After a couple of weeks (slow internet :( ) I have everything and can do * apt-get dist-upgrade -- <| hth U| Marius H| <><