Ubuntu 5.04 reaches end-of-life on 31 October 2006

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi ubuntu-users,

Christina Armstrong just wrote on
ubuntu-security-announce at lists.ubuntu.com:
> The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 5.04 is via Ubuntu 5.10.
> Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BreezyUpgradeNotes.

There's quite a few people asking about `conflicting packages' on that
page.  Search for it and you'll see what I mean.  If anyone has the
answer it would be nice to see it on the wiki page.

> Note that upgrades to version 6.06 and beyond are only supported in
> multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 5.10, then to 6.06.

Something I've wondered is whether, after upgrading from 5.04 to 5.10
with a 5.10 CD do I then need to upgrade to later versions of 5.10
packages available on the net, i.e. `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
-u', before continuing to upgrade with the 6.06 CD?  If so, I've
obviously got a big download after each CD step-up, which is fine, I'd
just like to know in advance to budget the time.

Cheers,


Ralph.