Thanks everyone. I didn't realise the difference in the layout of the
live and alt cd. I'll also check out aptoncd for future uses.
Sonia Hamilton.
Jeff Waugh wrote:
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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.
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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).
Salient point that I managed to skip: The alternate CD has packages on it,
while the Live CD is just a great big compressed image of a filesystem... so
it won't help with upgrades at all (yet [1]).
- Jeff
[1] Years ago there was some inspired brainstorming about ways to do this
very cleverly, but I don't imagine it's on the agenda at the moment. Net
connected upgrades are just so bloody convenient and simple (and ALL of the
developers have fantastic net connections, of course).
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