<quote who="Sonia Hamilton"> > 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.
8< ... snip ... 8< > The only thing I can think of is that I was using the Live CDs - should > I have used the Alternate CDs instead? Yes, stick an alternate CD in the drive and a dialogue will pop up asking if you'd like to use it as a source (and then upgrade). (It's not always massively useful for folks with lots of bandwidth, since you're likely to have extra stuff not represented on the install CD... But in the case of a basic Ubuntu machine installed in the field, it's pretty good. Also consider the use of a DVD image if you want the whole archive available.) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
