Gutsy ISO

[Craig Box]

>
> > Out of somewhat pertinent curiosity, how exactly does the Alternate CD
> work?
> >
> > Is it a command-line or non-GUI like the older CDs?
>
> It's not command-line.  But the installer is not-graphical, like the
> way the old Ubuntu and Debian installer used to be.  Pop the CD in
> your drive, answer all the questions, and Ubuntu will be installed.
> It's not that much less user friendly than using the normal CD, just a
> little less nice looking.
>
> The advantage is that it takes less memory to install that the normal
> CDs.  For a while on my laptop, when I had only 256 mb of ram, the
> alternate CD was the only way for me to install Ubuntu.  The live CD
> would refuse to work for anything newer than Dapper.
>

On top of that, you can't upgrade a machine using the "desktop"/Live CD.
The alternative CD contains packages, the live CD contains a compressed
image.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades.

Craig
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