[conspire] upgrading from ubuntu 10.04 -> 12.04.4 -> 14.04 ?

[Tony Godshall]

Chiming in a little late, but, here's my 2c

What Rick said.  What Daniel said.

Also,

=Matt, why are you upgrading in place if you
are concerned about the risk?  Do you have
lots of special customizations?  If not, a phillips
screwdriver and a new hard drive will give you
better performance.  You can get ~terabyte laptop-
sized SSHDs for about $110 these days, and you
can treat your upgrade as a full backup.

SSHD drives are especially good, since they
eliminate seek time on whatever portions of
the disk are most commonly used by mirroring
them to non-spinning media.  Depending on
settings, the spinning rust can even turn off
for long periods.  G-force ratings, and presumably
reliablility are higher as well.

Or even, you could run the OS off a stick.  I've
been running this Fujitsu U904 Windows 8 laptop
off a Sandisk Extreme USB-3.0 stick for the past
several months.  It's Debian 7.3, not Ubuntu, but
should be "same diff" as my Pennsylvania relatives
would say.

Tony




On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting =JeffH (Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com):
>
>> Also, I discovered that apparently the intermediate releases between
>> 10.04 -> 12.04.aren't available (or at least I didn't (yet) find
>> them) and so it looks like I gotta make the big jump in any case.
>
> Nope.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
>
> Quoting:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Please make sure you have the following sources.list, change CODENAME to
> your release, e.g. breezy.
>
>
> ## EOL upgrade sources.list
> # Required
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME-updates main restricted universe multiverse
> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME-security main restricted universe multiverse
>
> # Optional
> #deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME-backports main restricted universe multiverse
>
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