Online upgrade to 9.04

[David Fox]

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Robert Parker <rlp1938 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am unable to upgrade from 8.10 because I only have about 400 Mb left
> on my 4 gig SSD drive. I do have plenty of space on a permanently
> installed SD card, about 4 gig spare actually.

I ran into this situation on a 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade last year. I
solved it by using a spare partition and mounting it at
/var/cache/apt/archives, and then doing the update-manager shuffle.

So, I suggest mounting your SD card there. Don't worry about the prior
content of that directory, it'll likely all get overwritten with newer
files anyway.


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