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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