As per my previous question the issue I hoped would be resolved persist. Issue is that by upgrade I get the option to upgrade to 13.10. However 12.10, which I'm currently running, ended in May of 2014 – the “supplied” version is 13.10, but this one ended in July of 2014!

What to do now? Really hoped I could, for once, do an upgrade and not, yet again, buy a new HDD for upgrade ... with the days of work that this entails :P

Should I upgrade to 13.10 and then to 14.10 or 14.04 or is this a dead end. Is it a high risk operation etc.?

Can't post image so here is an ASCII version of dialogue

[»«][                       Software Updater                      ] _X |

|                                                                      |

|  +-------+  Software updates are no longer provided for Ubuntu       |

|  |    ^  |  12.10                                                    |

|  |    #  |                                                           |

|  +-------+                                                           |

|             To stay secure, you should upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10       |

|                                                                      |

|  [ Settings... ]                    [  Upgrade...  ] [     OK     ]  |

|                                                                      |

+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

After [ Upgrade... ]:

= Upgrading to a no longer supported version =



You are about to upgrade to a version of Ubuntu that is no longer

supported. 



The target release of Ubuntu is '''no longer supported''' by

Canonical. The support timeframe is between 9 month and 5 years after

the initial release. You will not receive security updates or critical

bugfixes. See http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife for details.



It is still possible to upgrade this version and eventually you will

be able to upgrade to a supported release of Ubuntu.



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