Is 12.04 upgradable?

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 18:20, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have MS-Windows.

So?

I do not understand. One minute, you're willing to go to extreme
lengths -- e.g. trying to install a 7-LTS-versions-old release and
then do, what, 5 system upgrades to get it to vaguely current... the
next, you won't try a simple free tool that might make life easier for
you and save hours of work?

Why? What's the big difference? I don't understand.

So you don't have Windows. I said *I* didn't get it to work on Linux;
maybe *you* would. Won't you even _try_? Ralph recently posted that he
uses the same tool; why not ask him for his experiences? Why not just
read the (very short, clear) website and try it for yourself? What
would it cost you? A lot less time than going 12.04 → 14.04 → 16.04 →
18.04, surely?

Or if it doesn't work under Linux, you could download a Windows ISO
from MS, run it in a VM and use that. Win10 is a free download and
runs well without activation, serial number, licensing, anything.
Certainly long enough to write a USB. You have already mentioned VMs
so presumably you have a hypervisor.

Or you could download a ready-installed VM. MS "XP Mode" for Win7 is a
fully-installed XP system in a VirtualPC VM. Works fine in VirtualBox;
I've mentioned it before, and I have written a set of instructions how
to get it working:
https://www.theregister.com/Print/2014/04/10/how_to_run_xp_on_new_windows/

Pretty sure I've linked this here before.

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