New instalation, old distribution, antique machine

[Dave Woyciesjes]

On 07/31/2012 08:36 PM, Dave Burrows wrote:
> On 7/31/2012 7:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2012/07/31 09:14 (GMT-0400) Dave Burrows composed:
>>
>>> We've tried everything we know to do to upgrade Ubuntu (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
>>> - the Dapper Drake) on this HP Omnibook without success.
>> [...]
>>> We use this machine exclusively to record sermons at our church with
>>> Audacity.
>>
>> This begs the question whether there's any point in an upgrade. Is
>> this machine normally not connected to the internet? If not, there's
>> no real risk in keeping it as is. Even if so, maybe there's not enough
>> connect time to retain material risk that any security holes that may
>> be open in Dapper would be exploited. If Dapper can still do what
>> needs doing, what's the point?
> Fair question.  There is a point; it's because Audacity made a fairly
> major upgrade that Dapper won't fetch.  Firefox, in addition, is in
> v.1.5 on this machine, and Dapper won't fetch the new version of that,
> either.  There are, in fact, 71 files it wants to upgrade, but when we
> tell it to, it can't.
>>> I'm a total Linux novice beyond this machine.
>>
>> Others have made reasonable suggestions, but left one significant one
>> out. As long as Linux is already installed and functional, and decent
>> internet access speed is available, both upgrade and new installation
>> are possible by first downloading only the installation kernel and
>> initrd, booting them with Grub, and installing directly from the
>> internet via HTTP or FTP. This valuable method works when PXE is not
>> available, as well as when it is, and when booting from floppy, CD,
>> DVD or USB for whatever reason won't work. Only what's actually needed
>> gets downloaded this way, plus things not available on conventional
>> installation media.
> Absolutely, I'm pretty surprised by all the responses, good ideas, all
> of them.  Thank you all very much!  I followed Nils Kassube's
> suggestion, of editing sources.list so it points to
> old-releases.ubuntu.com rather than archive.ubuntu.com.  I ran into some
> trouble when I tried to edit permissions in order to save the changes;
> it told me I wasn't the owner.

	Did you use the sudo command? E.g. sudo vi sources.list



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