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upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to current

Asked by Stan Orr

I have Dell mini from a few years back with Ubuntu 8.04 on it now. I had to reload 8.04 today as the system crashed after I
did an upgrade last week. Currently, I cannot get my wireless card to work with my network and I wondered if upgrading
might get me current and maybe updated to get it to work. The card says it is enabled and in use but no go.

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Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#1

Certainly, the hardware support in 12.04 is better. I'd recommend a clean install of 12.04 LTS after backing up your data. So much has changed in the last four years... Unity, several generations of kernel, Gnome 3 and Compiz. Save yourself a heap of time and possible problems by starting fresh with 12.04

Chris

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

you could upgrade to Lucid (LTS to LTS) then reboot and upgrade Lucid to Precise (again LTS to LTS)

I'd personally go for a clean install too.

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