[ubuntu-za] Error during online upgrade to Feisty

Jason Norwood-Young jason at freespeechpub.co.za
Mon Apr 30 14:12:32 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 10:16 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> Jason Norwood-Young wrote:
> > Save some bandwidth and just get the disc. I'm glad to see that the
> > desktop version now has the deb files so you don't need to download the
> > alternate disc to upgrade. 
> 
> I just checked, and the Desktop/Live CD does not have the debs for an 
> upgrade. It only has a few debs to enable people to get their Internet 
> connection working, such as packages for certain ADSL, ISDN and other 
> connection devices, and build-essential and related compiler packages if 
> you need to compile a driver.
> 
> IIRC this fixes what you ranted about when Edgy was released, Jason...

*Checks CD* Darn you're right. Didn't dig into the pool directory, I was
just so excited to see it there. At least they included build-essentials
and this time - it's a bit of a problem when you need to compile your
iburst drivers to get to the net, but you need to get to the net to
compile your iburst drivers.

J




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