Super Joe
May 4th, 2014, 03:19 PM
Hi, I'm a fairly seasoned Ubuntu user, but haven't posted much in this forum.
I have a PC running Ubuntu 11.04 that I would like to upgrade to 14.04, however my version is no longer supported and Update Manager tells me that an upgrade is available but always fails when I start the process. I was successful in updating by changing my sources to "old-releases.ubuntu.com" (or something similar to that.) I would like to, however, upgrade my distribution to 11.10, where I then can theoretically upgrade to 14.04. The problem is that 11.10 is also unsupported too and is only available from "old-releases.ubuntu.com" I'm not sure how to point Update Manager to that source.:confused:
I know that the common suggestion is to do a fresh install, but I have taken a long time to configure some software packages on this machine to communicate with some custom hardware, and I don't really want to take the time to reinstall the software and configure it.
So, please offer some advise on installing 11.10 and upgrading to 14.04,
-or-
Offer some advise on transferring my current configuration seamlessly into a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04,
-or-
I'm open to other ideas.
Thanks in advance.
I have a PC running Ubuntu 11.04 that I would like to upgrade to 14.04, however my version is no longer supported and Update Manager tells me that an upgrade is available but always fails when I start the process. I was successful in updating by changing my sources to "old-releases.ubuntu.com" (or something similar to that.) I would like to, however, upgrade my distribution to 11.10, where I then can theoretically upgrade to 14.04. The problem is that 11.10 is also unsupported too and is only available from "old-releases.ubuntu.com" I'm not sure how to point Update Manager to that source.:confused:
I know that the common suggestion is to do a fresh install, but I have taken a long time to configure some software packages on this machine to communicate with some custom hardware, and I don't really want to take the time to reinstall the software and configure it.
So, please offer some advise on installing 11.10 and upgrading to 14.04,
-or-
Offer some advise on transferring my current configuration seamlessly into a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04,
-or-
I'm open to other ideas.
Thanks in advance.