On Friday, July 25, 2014, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> i have been waiting for this so I could upgrade my Xubuntu 13.10
> without a net connection. Unfortunately, it is still not possible to do
> a dist-upgrade from the optical media.
>
> If you try to do a dist-upgrade from the optical media the option will
> be grayed out unless there is a net connection. And if there is a net
> connection the upgrade will completely ignore the optical media and
> download everything from the net. In fact, you can pop the optical
> media out of the drive and the upgrade will continue.
>
> In the past one used the alternate install ISO to do a dist-upgrade
> without a net connection. But after 12.10 the alternate install media
> were discontinued.
>
> Ubuntu has long had a very bad system for dist-upgrades. It proceeds by
> downloading a new package, installing it, then repeating for each of
> the hundreds of new packages. if you lose your net connection in the
> middle you can be left with an unbootable system. Contrast with other
> distros which download the files and do not begin the install until all
> of them are available on your hard disk. I have been told that if you
> lose your net connection Ubuntu will pause the upgrade, but that is not
> true if you need to reboot in order to restore the connection
>
Gentoo, Arch and similar, can have similar issues upgrading. It helps if
you *never* use wifi to upgrade - just plug in directly to the modem/router
- NO network manager! Also have a root terminal open with all the basic
network commands needed to reset your connection. Modprobe, ifconfig and
route are your friends. Who reboots to re-establish network? Yikes!
Of course, and this may be beating a dead horse, you can join Rich and I on
Team Slackware. Just sayin'!
-Ed
--
You! What PLANET is this!
-- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
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