Sign up ×  I've an outdated jaunty installation on one of my
server boxes...  trying to do a do-release-upgrade returns a
Is there any way i can upgrade it to karmic and then step-by-
step from there to lucid ?   share|improve this question  2
Answers 2  up vote 2 down vote accepted  Download the Alternate
CD from here then burn it or mount it using  sudo mount -o loop
<the_iso_name> /media  then run this by terminal or by pressing
Alt+f2 for gnome:  gksu "sh /media/cdromupgrade"  or for kde:
kdesudo "sh /media/cdromupgrade"  this will upgrade your system
to karmic.  share|improve this answer Hey, yes, thank you, I
just stumbled upon the "upgrading using alternate CD" section in
the karmic upgrade guide and did as you've written :) thanks a
lot! one thing to notice is that you have to deny internet
access during the cdromupgrade - else it would fail with the
same error message i reportet in miy first question :) –  madmas
May 28 '11 at 15:06  Without downloading the Alternate CD, it is
still possible to upg