updating from 8.04 to a newer version?

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I have an old system. It doesn't have a DVD drive, and I think the cd drive is a bit wonky. The only disk that I have been able to get to install is an old (official) 8.04 Kubuntu disk. No disk that I've burned on a few systems works. They check out, but they don't seem to survive the install (another issue).

I thought once I got a version on that I could update over the web, but no luck. It appears EOL. No updates seem to be available, or software to install.

Is there a way? I'd like to get it to as new a version as possible.

The next step would be to pull the drive and get a new one, but I'd rather not.

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