Upgrade 10.04 to 14.04?

[Niles Rogoff]

For me 'do-release-upgrade` would not attempt to start a GUI when running
Ubuntu server.


On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> We have a client who is running an Ubuntu 10.04 server. They want to
> upgrade to 14.04. The machine is running 4x500GB HDD in a RAID10
> configuration as md0.
>
> Can I reasonably expect to be able to upgrade this machine, or should I
> bite the bullet and re-install?
>
> The process seems to involve upgrading through the other LTS releases,
> so that's actually two upgrades - 10.04 to 12.04 and 12.04 to 14.04.
> Still seems to offer lots of opportunity for fail.
>
> And assuming I do try an upgrade, what's the apt-get way to do it? I
> don't have a GUI on the server, and just about every answer on the 'net
> talks about upgrading desktops. "do-release-upgrade -m server" seems to
> be designed to do this, but there is no way to control the target
> version; I'm a bit concerned that it will try to go straight to 14.04.
>
> Can I do it from CD/USB? Internet access at this location is very slow,
> and the downloads will be around 2GB.
>
> Actually the more questions I ask the more convinced I become that I
> should just re-install.
>
> Regards, K.
>
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