upgrade 6.1 to 7.04

[Nils Kassube]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Sunday 15 March 2009 11:03:24 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Lorcan O'Neill wrote:
> > > I'm trying to upgrade from 6.10 to 7.04 but I get the following
> > > error
> >
> > That is because 6.10 AND 7.04 are no longer supported. If you want
> > to upgrade to a supported version it would be 6.10 -> 7.04 -> 7.10
> > and even 7.10 itself will no longer be supported when 9.04 is
> > available next month. If I were in your situation I would reinstall
> > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which will be supported until 2011. However if you
> > really want to go the long upgrade way, follow these instructions:
> >
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FeistyUpgrades>
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades>
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades>
>
> I don't think you can do it and it is likely the reason the original
> poster can't update his system.  The repositories are no longer
> there!  

If you read the links you will see that they point to the oldreleases 
repository. So it IS possible to upgrade old systems.

> I know Ubuntu is 
> a fantastic system and some don't want to upgrade their working
> system but it would be nice to sustain a working upgrade path of some
> sort.

That's what the oldreleases repository is good for. Like you said, it 
should be available, and it is. OTOH, it should NOT be available from 
the standard repository because then you might think the old system 
would still get updates which will not happen. Moving to oldreleases 
makes people wake up because their system is no longer supported.


Nils