Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

[Mike Marchywka]

I'm trying to upgrade this now, 

cat  /proc/version
Linux version 3.0.0-12-generic (buildd at crested) (gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011

but do-release-upgrade fails and I was curious what the easiest way is to put in 18 or so as I think 
this only wants to upgrade to 12.04 anyway.

My other machine has 16.04, 
 cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.15.0-106-generic (buildd at lcy01-amd64-019) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)) #107~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 4 15:40:05 UTC 2020

which seems to stably support everything I need. In the past, I found this would boot from the Beaver
USB stick quite well. Is installing from that likely to be the simplest thing? I'd like to do this over
ssh as the machine not easy to get at right now.

Thanks.




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