On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:29:30 -0700 > Tony Rick <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Alternate install images (along with some install features like RAID > >support) were dropped for the 12.10 launch. There is a lot of chatter > >about it out there, and lot's o' disappointment. Canonical giveth and > >Canonical taketh away. > > The alternate images have been handy to me at the Clinic. On more than > one occasion someone has wanted to upgrade from whatever Ubuntu they > currently have to the latest. We don't have a lot of bandwidth at Free > Geek, but the Alternate images allow an upgrade from CD rather than > over the net connection. Are you telling me that the Alternate images > will be no longer? if so, how can I upgrade an existing Ubuntu without > a net connection? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Here's what the 12.10 Beta2 Technical Overview<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Beta2>says: > Offline upgrade options via alternate CDs are no longer offered for Ubuntu >> Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Please ensure you have network connectivity to >> one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible mirror and follow >> the instructions above. > > I have not yet been able to locate the same proclamation for the official release, but I strongly suspect that it exists. I am afraid that the current answer to your question "How can I upgrade..." is: "You can't". The best I can hope for at this point is that the community will come up with one, or Canonical relents (highly unlikely, IMHO). (repeat the chorus: 'Canonical giveth...') -- - tony "I come from the nowhere, I go to the noplace, und here I am!" Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Popeye, 1939) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
