On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:13:30PM -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Only disk I have is Ubuntu 8.04 > > Can I install that and then change /etc/apt/sources.list? > > And do > > apt-get update > apt-get dist upgrade
While this may have been a suggested way to do upgrades in days long past, upgrading in this way on ubuntu is *not* recommended and there's a distinct possibility that you can be left with a borked system afterwards. The recommended ways to upgrade ubuntu are through update-manager (the default gui update tool) and do-release-upgrade (cli). Because 8.04 is an LTS, it won't ask if you want to upgrade to non-LTS releases by default; you'll either need to use the Software Properties to change the setting, or run "update-manager -d" or "do-release-upgrade -d". See the pages linked off of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for more details. > and install xubuntu?? Yes, install ubuntu normally, and then apt-get install xubuntu-desktop. Furthermore, you could do them in either order: - install 8.04, upgrade to your desired release (9.10?), install xubuntu-desktop - install 8.04, install xubuntu-desktop, upgrade to your desired release (9.10?) However, two things to keep in mind: 1) if your 8.04 image is 32bit, you'll probably want to download a new iso anyway, as switching an installation from 32bit to 64bit is non-trivial (and multi-arch support is not here yet). 2) upgrades will end up downloading a lot packages, particularly if you're upgrading through several releases (e.g. 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10), plus there's time involved to upgrade all those packages. It's probably faster to just download the xubuntu release iso you want and install from that. One other issue you may have with trying install and upgrade off of 8.04 media is that, depending on your new system's hardware, some critical piece may not be recognized, like your network card. > And what would the sources.list look like?? The sources.list will be the same, whether you use the xubuntu (XFCE) desktop, the ubuntu (GNOME) desktop, or kubuntu desktop; they're all part of the ubuntu project and all use the same package archive. -- Steve Beattie <[email protected]> http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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