Upgrading from 12.04.5LTS to 14.04.1LTS Unable to do an upgrade from CD

[Liam Proven]

On 1 October 2014 12:56, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Thanks Liam for the response.
>
> What you are saying does not make sense to me. In my circumstances I have a
> total of four(4) systems. All have worked differently when it came to doing
> the upgrade to 14.04.1 LTS. Yet the desktops (3) of them had the same basic
> configuration of s/w. Which was:
> 12.04.5 LTS w/Cinnamon desktop
>
> 1. Upgraded using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get do-release-upgrade.
> Added Cinnamon post install. NO problems moving to 14.04.1 LTS.
>
> 2. Upgraded using the CD and choosing Upgrade from the menu. Added Cinnamon
> post install. NO problems moving to 14.04.1 LTS.
>
> 3. Will not work with either option used above.
>
> NONE worked choosing UPGRADE from the Update Manager. The other one is a
> headless server. I used sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
> do-release-upgrade.
> NO problems at all.


You have added significantly more information in this post than in
your original question.

Also, I said I wasn't sure!

Have you Googled this?

According to this you must have an Internet connection:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/283026/how-can-i-perform-an-offline-upgrade-using-ubiquity-on-the-installation-disc

There may be another way, though:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/440423/how-can-i-upgrade-ubuntu-lts-to-the-next-one-offline


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