[ale] Ubuntu upgrade

[Paul Cartwright]

On Mon July 5 2010, Joshua Kite wrote:
> One of the things I learned the hard way about Ubuntu is that there are two
> supported upgrade paths:  upgrade from LTS to LTS OR remain current.  If
> you were on 8.04 Hardy Heron then you could upgrade straight to 10.04 Lucid
> Lynx.  But if you were on 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope and attempted to upgrade
> straight to 10.04 without first going to 9.04 Karmic Koala then there were
> likely some issues.  I think getting out of that mess required a
> Nuke-N-Pave.

not sure about that. My son had an 8.04 install, and I selected the 
dist-upgrade, and it went to 9.04. I did a dist-upgrade from that & it went 
to 9.10 . Finally did another dist-upgrade & it went to 10.04 .


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