Thanks for that, I'll give it a go on the next upgrade I do.
But going back to the second part of my question, how would a
non-technical user do it?
For example, here's a hypothetical use case for a 3rd world country I've
worked in:
"Juan-Carlos has been using Ubuntu for 12 months, and now wants to
upgrade because he's heard that Network Manager will solve some
networking issues he's having. He is currently sharing an expensive
satellite link with several neighbours, and downloading 1G of files to
upgrade is out of the question. He travels by bus into the district
capital, and downloads and burns the next Ubuntu iso at an internet
cafe. Upon getting home, he tries to upgrade using the CD but none of
the menu items cause the files on the CD to be used. In disgust, he
let's his neighbour reinstall a pirate copy of Window$ XP SP2 and solves
his network problems".
(It's Guatemala, and "privatise everything" has done wonders for the
cost of utilities).
Sonia Hamilton.
Blindraven wrote:
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 <so...@snowfrog.net> 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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