Ubuntu 9.04 update to something newer

[Paul Cartwright]

On 09/05/2013 08:55 AM, sandman42 at libero.it wrote:
> 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???
did you try to download the CD. Then edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to
include the CD, and also change your sources to.. whatever distribution
you want to go to.
then do an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade


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Paul Cartwright
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