Upgrading from Hardy

[Gregory Gamble]

Dear Nils

I had tried the apt-get approach to getting to Lucid, but I think I did one step too many ... and it won't boot from the disk.
So I tried the CD I burnt ... it seems I can't install from it as it wants to repartition.
Fortunately all my home area and /usr/local stuff seems to be intact.

I can boot a trial Lucid from the CD I burned.

I tried using gparted etc as mentioned in [1] to create a boot-able USB, and I believe it's configured exactly the way you describe.

It looks as if I can't configure to boot from USB ... I tried to get it to configure booting from removable media in the BIOS,
but it doesn't seem to want to do that.
Is it possible to configure "Restart..." in the ubuntu logout menu to load from /media/boot-usb (that's the label I configured it with).
Perhaps, it just doesn't recognise the partitioning I did ... since I get:

$ ls /media/boot-usb
backups  boot  isos

$ df /media/boot-usb
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              7808356   1004568   6803788  13% /media/boot-usb

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb1 

Disk /dev/sdb1: 8011 MB, 8011390464 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

I did also try 'Install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS' but I quit at Step 5 when it wanted to re-partition the hard disk which I thought would
just erase my /home area and /usr/local.

Any advice from here? It calls by hard disk '244 GB Filesystem' and the areas I'm trying to preserve comprise about 16GB.

I do have a DVD drive ... so buying a new DVD and burning Trusty to that is an option ... but if there is some way I can boot from the USB
I'd like to try that first.

And what about repairing my Lucid installation so it boots from HDD ? ... or perhaps installing Trusty from: /media/boot-usb/isos/ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso ?

Regards,
Greg G

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nils Kassube [kassube at gmx.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 4:28 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading from Hardy

Gregory Gamble wrote:
> I may very well try a from scratch upgrade. I'm just worried if it
> doesn't work I may just have to buy a new PC ... which may well be my
> best option anyway.
>
> I did burn Lucid to a CD ... which just manages to fit being under
> 700MB ... the later ones don't fit anymore. I'm really getting the
> message "old tech."
>
> I tried booting from the CD ... it just went dead on me. So that's not
> promising.
>
> Thanks for your advice ... I'll probably come back to it after copying
> trusty to a portable hard drive.

Do you have a DVD drive? Then you can burn the trusty ISO to a DVD-R(W)
or as an alternative you could write it to a USB stick - provided your
machine would boot from USB. Then you have two options: Either you write
the ISO to the USB stick with dd, overwriting all the data on the stick.
Or as an alternative you can make the stick bootable with grub and copy
the ISO file to the USB stick [1].


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2015-April/280372.html>

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