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saenger
October 11th, 2011, 05:46 PM
On my Dell Mini, I have 8.04 installed. I have been unable to upgrade to a newer version.

When I try to upgrade, I get this:

wes@wes:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found

I've tried both "prompt=normal"
and
"prompt=lts"
in the release-upgrades file.

What else can I try?

Regards,
Wes Aman

mikewhatever
October 11th, 2011, 05:59 PM
Dell used to sell the Minis with Ubuntu 8.04-lpia. LPIA was Intel's low power architecture which is no longer supported. You can check yours with the uname -m command.
If the output is lpia, your only option is to reinstall, which really isn't a big deal.

Frogs Hair
October 11th, 2011, 06:03 PM
Check your update manager settings per the instructions at the link .https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades

saenger
October 12th, 2011, 02:44 AM
Dell used to sell the Minis with Ubuntu 8.04-lpia. LPIA was Intel's low power architecture which is no longer supported. You can check yours with the uname -m command.
If the output is lpia, your only option is to reinstall, which really isn't a big deal.


It IS -lpia, so I'll have to reinstall. Thanks for the help.

saenger
October 12th, 2011, 02:46 AM
Check your update manager settings per the instructions at the link .https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades

Thanks for the link. I've downloaded 10.04 onto a USB stick, so I'll do a new install.

thatguruguy
October 12th, 2011, 03:32 AM
Download it on a different computer and burn the iso to a disk. Install Ubuntu 8.10 on that computer using the disk you made.

If I were you I would stick with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, it's more stable than 8.10.

8.04 is no longer supported. For that matter, neither is 8.10.

The OP should either upgrade to 10.04 (the current LTS) or 11.04 (the current Ubuntu), or wait a couple days and upgrade to 11.10. Suggesting he stay with 8.04 is bad advice.