upgrade 6.1 to 7.04

[Karl F. Larsen]

Victor Padro wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Mario Vukelic
> <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>wrote:
>
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:31 +0000, Lorcan O'Neill wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm trying to upgrade from 6.10 to 7.04
>>>       
>> Both 6.10 and 7.04 have reached End-of-life:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>>
>> There might be feasible ways to upgrade, but you will be much better off
>> by backing up your data and reinstalling a currently-supported version.
>> Probably best to use 8.04.2 LTS from here:
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/
>>
>>
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>
> Just wondering...if you could download the 8.xx alternate CD and run it in
> ubuntu 6.10 perhaps it will let you upgrade, if not, well as others said
> back up and reinstall.
>
> that worked for me using 7.04...or was it 7.10, can't remember. :(
>
>   
    Please give up on an upgrade. You do need to come up to a more 
recent version of Ubuntu. I suggest at least to Hardy. Load this version 
along side of your 6.1 and give it a big partition, at least 5 GB.

    Once the Hardy is fully updated, consider mounting the /home/ from 
your 6.1 version onto your Hardy. This is quite easy to do. In this way 
you have all your old stuff on your new computer. All you need to do is 
mount the /home/ with your fstab file. Here is my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=8713c541-dffa-4fd2-b22b-e600afacbab2 /               ext3    
relatime,error
s=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=77cb374a-6349-427e-9b57-ea6776f4a52d none            swap    
sw           
  0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
# /dev/sda5       /home       ext3     defaults        1   2
UUID=40cb6175-3c6e-4a7f-ae57-083cccbbba63 /home  ext3 defaults 1  2

The last entry is the one that mounts my /home/ directory.


Karl


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