Upgrading from Hardy

[Liam Proven]

On 4 February 2016 at 20:08, Gregory Gamble <greg.gamble at uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> I may yet buy myself a new PC ... but I'd like to convince myself a little more that I've reached that point where I need one.


AFAICS you have not told us what PC you have.

Can you tell us as much as possible about it?

CPU model, speed; RAM; hard disk; graphics card & VRAM.

There is little point in working hard trying to install ancient releases.

If you can only boot from CD, not DVD, but you have broadband
Internet, then use a netboot CD and install directly from Ubuntu's
servers.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/

These contain just enough OS to run the setup program, get online and
fetch the rest.

If your PC is extremely old -- say around 10+ years old -- then it can
probably not run any supported modern release of Ubuntu.

However, you might be able to run 12.04 which has about another year
left. There is a special edition of this for old machines:

http://www.lxle.net/

You will probably need the old 32-bit edition of 12.04 -- it's on the
download menu.




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