Upgrade or reinstall from 8.09?

[deepblue80]

Hello
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Should I upgrade from 8.09 to 9.10 or does this require a clean reinstall? If the latter, then how do I go about doing this as I dual boot Win XP and Ubuntu?

[SnickerSnack]

Hello
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

Should I upgrade from 8.09 to 9.10 or does this require a clean reinstall? If the latter, then how do I go about doing this as I dual boot Win XP and Ubuntu?

Afaik, there is no 8.09, so you either have 8.04 or 8.10.

You can't upgrade directly from 8.10 to 9.10, but instead you must upgrade to each version in turn. So, from 8.04, you must upgrade to 8.10, then to 9.04, then to 9.10.

This page gives some info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

It is not necessary to reinstall.