<quote who="Jeff Waugh"> > <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).
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). -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. People want to be photographed with me, but it can be a nuisance when I am in a hurry." - Stephen Hawking on celebrity -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html