2 Ways you can do that :
Mount the ISO as a drive with a command like: sudo mount -o loop
~/Desktop/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0
or
gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"
Regards,
Harrison.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Sonia Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Last night I was trying to upgrade some Ubuntu machines using the Ubuntu CDs
> (rather than downloading all the packages), in order to save bandwidth. I
> couldn't get the upgrade to download packages off the CD; in the end I did
> clean installs - no big deal since /home was separate.
>
> I'm just wondering how you're supposed to do it, and more importantly, how a
> newbie would be supposed to do it.
>
> I tried doing it the GUI way - adding the CD via "Software Sources", then
> upgrading via "Update Manager"
>
> I tried doing it via the shell - various combinations of `apt cd-rom add`,
> `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade`, `apt-get dist-upgrade`, editing
> /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that I was using the Live CDs - should I
> have used the Alternate CDs instead?
>
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