daniel-clement
August 28th, 2018, 07:17 AM
Hello,
My wife's laptop is still running 14.04; it might be a good idea to upgrade. But I have 3 issues:
- the update manager, even if I run it with -d parameter, doesn't offer the next LTS (I guess this is because we somehow skipped 16.04);
- (in case of reinstall) the laptop (a Dell XPS 13) now refuses to boot from USB (though it did before). Maybe it doesn't like the bootable USB stick created with another PC, but then...
- its own USB disk creator fails to complete. After pointing it to the desired ISO, it gives an error message telling that it cannot create the USB stick.
Now, I know these are different issues, but it's almost checkmate here. What would be my best option? I know that the upgrade can be triggered from the command line, but I have never tried that.
I would rather not break anything, so any insight welcome. Regards, Daniel
My wife's laptop is still running 14.04; it might be a good idea to upgrade. But I have 3 issues:
- the update manager, even if I run it with -d parameter, doesn't offer the next LTS (I guess this is because we somehow skipped 16.04);
- (in case of reinstall) the laptop (a Dell XPS 13) now refuses to boot from USB (though it did before). Maybe it doesn't like the bootable USB stick created with another PC, but then...
- its own USB disk creator fails to complete. After pointing it to the desired ISO, it gives an error message telling that it cannot create the USB stick.
Now, I know these are different issues, but it's almost checkmate here. What would be my best option? I know that the upgrade can be triggered from the command line, but I have never tried that.
I would rather not break anything, so any insight welcome. Regards, Daniel