New instalation, old distribution, antique machine

[Victor Padro]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Dave Burrows <dave.burrows at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We've tried everything we know to do to upgrade Ubuntu (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
> - the Dapper Drake) on this HP Omnibook without success.
>
>
> 1. Upgrade Tool - New distribution release '8.04.1 LTS is available.
>
>         Getting upgrade prerequisites failed
>
>         The system was unable to get the prerequisites for the upgrade.
>         The upgrade will abort now and restore the original system
>         state.
>
>         Please report this as a bug against the 'update-manager' package
>         and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the
>         bugreport.
>
>
> 2. From CD - seems CD-ROM isn't functioning; dusted w/ canned air. Same
> results.
>
>         Unable to mount the selected volume.
>                 >show more details
>                 mount: no medium found
>
>
> 3. from USB Flash Drive
>
>         a. No support in BIOS for booting from USB drive.
>
>         b. File Browser --> root --> wubi.exe
>
>                 Could not open 'wubi.exe'
>                 The package might be corrupted, or you are not allowed
>                 to open the file. Check the permissions of the file.
>
>         Full permissions for owner, none for group, none for other.  I'm
>         owner. Tried giving group & other full
>         permissions, checkboxes wouldn't stay checked.
>
>
> One option is to try to borrow an external CD-ROM, but installing it may
> prove difficult.  Another may be to pursue the permissions of wubi.exe,
> but I don't know where to start.  A third might be to figure out a way
> for this old distribution to look for something newer than 8.04 on the
> server; is that even possible?
>
> We use this machine exclusively to record sermons at our church with
> Audacity.  I'm a total Linux novice beyond this machine.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for a next direction?
>
> Peace,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 Server on an old Pentium II with
512MB RAM flawlessly using an IDE DVD-ROM burned on a DVD-R because I
ran out of CD-Rs though, you might try borrowing one of those.


Best regards,

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