Gutsy ISO

[Richard Seguin]

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That's a good idea... I'll seed...

Brian Burger wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Craig Box <craig at dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Being able to upgrade an Ubuntu install from the alt CD is a huge,
> huge timesaver - it's often far faster to torrent the alt ISO, burn
> that, then use it for the majority of your dist-upgrade than to rely
> on the (grossly overloaded) repositories for the entire dist-upgrade.
>
> Torrenting the Gutsy Alt CD yesterday took me about 4 hours, burning
> it and dist-upgrading with it took about another hour. Last time I
> tried to do a dist-upgrade purely from repos, it took more than 8hrs
> due to incredibly slow download speeds.
>
> Then I left my machine running overnight with both the Desktop & Alt
> torrents seeding - always nice to pass the favour on.
>
> Brian
>
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