Question about upgrading

[amaresu]

My dearly beloved Ubuntu 9.02 will no longer be supported in 2 days. I've never upgraded before and have been putting it off until I had to upgrade. That time has apparently come. My question is essentially how do I do that?

Do I just hit the upgrade button on the Update Manager? Do I need to back up everything I haven't gotten around to backing up yet? Am I in danger of losing everything? How does this work?


Thank you!

Comments

[stellastars]

I'd back everything up, just to be safe.

You may also want to read this article Clean Upgrade before clicking the upgrade button. Essentially, it says that IF there are upgrade issues, they usually have to do with unsupported and/or third-party packages, so it suggests uninstalling them, upgrading, then reinstalling.

Hope that info helps some!

[amaresu]

I will read that, thank you. I need to get some data disks to back stuff up on.