Ubuntu upgrade from 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Hya,

I have an ubuntu system on an unusual hardware.

Its system is beautifully outdated, so I am trying to upgrade it.

I have found several (including official) sites which explain how to do with update-manager. However, my old system does not have modern one, so no sub-menu for system upgrade.

QUESTION
Is it safe to edit apt source files? (jaunty to whatever)
If so, I would not jump release (jaunty -> Karmic -> Maverick...). Is this true?

great thanks in advance

cheers

I you do a upgrade, save your config files (grub, /etc) and try a new install.

I would rather try to prepare a new system (on an usb drive) and test it first (as a live CD). But save your important data before installing the new OS.

Can you post the hardwareinfo?

Yes, hardware info is needed here.

While 9.04 was a very nice version it is way out of date.

Upgrading from there is not going to work for a number of reasons. The main is that it is just way too big a jump to any supported ubuntu version.

I have a Dell Latitude that I am not real sure of the date on but it has no wifi but does have built in dialup modem and a dsl port. Obviously not very new. Runs Debian Wheezy fine although rather slow compared to my newer boxes. Works fine if just doing one thing at a time.

The oldest Ubuntu version still supported is 12.04 and it was built on Wheezy when Wheezy was Debian testing. Should be supported until April in 17.

A clean install is really your only reasonable option. You can get a Live CD for 12.04 I am sure and try it.

I would get a couple different "family" members, if I were you, to try if you are sticking with Ubuntu. Lubuntu and possibly Xubuntu will be more responsive on your older hardware. Lubuntu would probably far surpass Xubuntu but either will do better than the Gnome base of Ubuntu even though Xubuntu has way too much in the way of Gnome packages installed on it.

With some actual facts as to the hardware more advice could be given.

like "widget" i still have a working OLD!!! box
One from 2001 that had XP brand spankin new on it ( not a win98 upgrade - than machine self destructed)

but i am in the redhat camp

for that 14 year old computer rhel5.11 and rhel6.6 ( with some hacking run fine)


for the Debian camp

Squeeze still has some support left in it
LTS until 2016

Wheezy ? may or may not work well

like rhel6 you might have to do a few customizing on it

using a older Legacy hardware OS that is STILL SUPPORTED would be a good idea

Hya

Thanks for posts.

For some reason, lshw gives me quite non-useful data and hwinfo is missing.

Following some part of data I found.

CPU ARMv7 rev1 800Mhz 32bit
memory 471MiB
5Gig SSD as a main storage
kernel is 2.6.28
wireless interface only. (I cannot find chip detail.)
touchscreen.
bluetooth.

I cannot find pci bus. ??? why ???

cheers

I would be a bit concerned about the pci bus but not until I tried;

lspci

which should probably also list your wifi.

Hya,

Yes, I do agree. But life is complicated.
lspci replies "cannot access any working method.

I tried with sudo, and got same result.

cheers

That doesn't sound good at all.

That is the OS not communicating with the bios correctly.

One or both have some serious problems.