#title Upgrading Jaunty to Karmic
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= 9.04 to 9.10 (Jaunty to Karmic) using Alternate CD =

To upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 using the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Upgrades#Upgrades_via_alternate_CD | Alternate CD upgrade method is described here]].

= 9.04 to 9.10 (Jaunty to Karmic) =

== Before you start ==

Please make sure you've read and understood the [[EOLUpgrades| main EOLUpgrade page]].

I would recommend using [[http://www.clonezilla.org| clonezilla]] for backing up your current installation. It is very easy to backup and restore your partitions with clonezilla. It takes less then 30 minutes to backup/restore a 20Gb root filesystem which has 4-5 Gb used space.


Note that the instructions listed here will '''no longer officially work'''. The `do_release_upgrade` tool will now return this error:

{{{
An upgrade from 'jaunty' to 'lucid' is not supported with this tool.
}}}

The alternate official migration path is using the Alternate-CD, more information about why this is the only upgrade now available, please [[http://askubuntu.com/questions/47807/how-do-i-upgrade-from-9-04-to-10-04-2 | see this discussion]].

'''However a work-around has been proposed''', so for those eager to use the online upgrade facility, it is still possible, [[http://askubuntu.com/a/135028/3004 | an answer on the previous discussion has been proposed]]. It requires a few extra steps before you start with the next chapter.

== The upgrade ==

 * Please make sure you have the following sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list).
{{{
## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted universe multiverse

# Optional
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-proposed main restricted universe multiverse
}}}

You can make use of -backports, -proposed repositories if you want.
For more information about repositories see [[Repositories/Ubuntu]].

 * Update the package list and upgrade all the installed packages
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sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
}}}

 * Perform the release upgrade.

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sudo do-release-upgrade
}}}

 * Check your new version
Reboot your machine and you can now run `lsb_release -a` to check the new version of Ubuntu.

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