Ubuntu 9.04 update to something newer

[Liam Proven]

On 5 September 2013 13:55, sandman42 at libero.it <sandman42 at libero.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in a VM I have an ubuntu 9.04 (not accessible from internet), and I've been
> trying to update it in order to install newer releases of the programs I use on
> it.
> Particularly, I've been trying to update tp 10.04, that's LTS, and then to
> 12.04, that's LTS too.
>
> The problem is that neither I can do it, nor i can do a simple 9.04 -> 9.10.
>
> I've tried everything, including downloading (<distribution> means the
> distribution name, i.e. karmic, jaunty etc) the package http://old-releases.
> ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/<distribution>-proposed/main/dist-upgrader-
> all/<distribution>.tar,gz, but when I do a
>
> sudo ./<distribution>
>
> I have the message
>
> passage from jaunty to <distributio> is not supported.
>
> What could I do, except reinstalling everything from scratch???

Can you find an Alternate CD image? That allowed offline upgrading.


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