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I have a quite old machine lying around which is capable of doing daily work like YouTube videos and casual web surfing.

It has Windows installation which has become laggy.

I am thinking of installing Ubuntu on it. The problem is I don't have any spare USB drive to make bootable USB of latest version. But, I have Ubuntu CD that was provided during ShipIt program like 10+ years back and I think it has Ubuntu 10.04 version on it.

So, if I install Ubuntu through that CD, will I be able to upgrade to latest version of Ubuntu i.e. 22.10 over the internet?

Falcon
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  • A short answer is no. 10.04 is too old for that. And don't expect Ubuntu 22.10 will work better on an old hardware. – Pilot6 Feb 25 '23 at 10:58
  • How are we to interpret what you mean by an quite old machine lying around... I use hardware from 2005 in Quality Assurance testing of current Ubuntu products/released; but the oldest hardware I use is from 2003... Yours is 'lying around' which may mean its even older? (you also mention 10.04 so it maybe 586 class as 686 wasn't yet mandated for Ubuntu installs), but 586 class computers (in Linux terms) are no longer supported (686 being the last supported with Ubuntu until disco or 19.04 reached EOL). We can't possibly know what you mean by quite old thus cannot currently know – guiverc Feb 25 '23 at 11:13
  • Another thought... I used to use old thinkpads that didn't have working USB ports in QA; where I downloaded the ISO to a partition which had another OS on it; and then modify the bootloader (via script) which added the ISOs to the boot loader options... By then rebooting I could boot ISOs on disk, and do QA-test installs to other portions of the disk. The details to achieve this are documented on this web site; however it's many times the amount of effort/work/skill needed compared to writing an ISO to media & booting from that.. so it's possible, however 10.04 is still off-topic here – guiverc Feb 25 '23 at 11:17
  • Refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic where you'll notice only supported releases of Ubuntu and flavors are on-topic for this site. Yes there are exceptions where you want to release-upgrade to a supported release; but 10.04 had to upgrade options; to the next release (or 10.10) or the next LTS which was 12.04; and those options disappeared when those releases reached EOL – guiverc Feb 25 '23 at 11:19
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    "The problem is I don't have any spare USB drive" Borrow one from a friend. Ask around; folks have them. Trying to install and then release-upgrading six times will take you literally all day...if it works at all. – user535733 Feb 25 '23 at 16:29
  • Will the computer boot in UEFI mode? Try this: https://askubuntu.com/a/1417942/43926 – C.S.Cameron Feb 26 '23 at 04:48

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