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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:45 PM, King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
