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i have an old sony vaio that was made for windows ME and i can't figure out how to upgrade to ubuntu 6.1 from 5.1 because the upgrader doesn't work ...
- 04-09-2009 #1Just Joined!
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5.1 upgrade help
i have an old sony vaio that was made for windows ME and i can't figure out how to upgrade to ubuntu 6.1 from 5.1 because the upgrader doesn't work because it is older than 18 months.
Can someone please help?
- 04-09-2009 #2Linux Guru
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I'm not sure if Ubuntu has repositories archived going that far back, but even if they do, it would be much much easier to download the latest release and do a clean install. (Assuming you have at least 512 MB RAM.)
- 04-09-2009 #3Linux Guru
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you should just download the newest version, burn it to a cd, and do a fresh install, after you backup any important data, unless your /home is on separate partition
- 04-09-2009 #4Linux Enthusiast
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I totally agree with the above 2 posts. Why go into the "trouble" of updating, just to get an unsupported and seriously outdated version? Just wait until April 23, when version 9.04 is released and do a fresh install.
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