Is 12.04 upgradable?

[Robert Heller]

At Fri,  8 Jan 2021 09:28:43 -0500 (EST) "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> At Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:47:57 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 04:42, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Having failed to install 18.04 on my desktop machine (with preexisting
> > > Software RAID and LVM), I am going to try the 12.04 ALT image.
> > 
> > Suggestion: don't jump far back and try to move slowly forwards.
> 
> Good suggestion, except 12.04 is the newest version that still has an ALT 
> image.
> 
> > 
> > Instead: go slowly backwards.
> > 
> > Try 16.04. If that works, you're good.

Well, to my *great* supprise, 16.04 server *mostly* worked -- it was wonky about 
the RAID array for /boot and wanted to reformat it (and /home!) and wanted to 
use the swap partitions on the VMs and also wanted to boot the VMs as bare 
metal installs (serious stupidity).  Nipped that in the bud.  I had to 
manually hack things (/etc/fstab, etc.) after the install, from the CentOS 6 
system.  Serious funky install process.  Reminds me of back in the day 
installing Slackware from floppies... 

> > 
> > If that doesn't, try 14.04.
> > 
> > Then if all else fails try 12.04.
> > 
> 
> Tedious.  I have little confidence that any of these will work.  I'm thinking 
> I will have to install a "spare" disk and install it there and then copy the 
> install to the proper place.
> 
> 
> 

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