[ubuntu-za] Problems with my Dell machine

[Bill Cairns]

Thanks Michael,

The trouble with doing the version migration - update is that you can't skip
versions. So I would have to go from 6.06 to 6.10 to 7.04 to 7.10 which is
an awful lot of PT compared to just installing 7.10 from scratch.

Actually, the best advice that I have got from the forums is, "If 6.06 isn't
broken, don't fix it!" I think I will probably follow that advice.

Thanks to all for your response,
  Bill

On Dec 18, 2007 7:35 AM, Michael <milegrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings
>
>  There is a procedure on the Ubuntu forums for doing a version
> migration... used it before and works well and is fairly simple (don't
> have the URL handy but will dig if the day permits)
>
>  The basics are that you do a prep upgrade on one or two filesets,
> then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to teh new version (the CD in your
> case),  and then do few apt-get instaructions and it'll run.
> Depending on the speed of your system should not be more than an hour
> or three (my VPS in the US did it in just over an hour pulling the
> updates from the net)
>
>  Here is one I found doing a 60 sec search on google :
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades
> Another one :
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DapperUpgrades?highlight=%28dist-upgrade%29
> Taking from this url - how to add a CD repository :
> To install from a physical CD
>   1. Run:
>                sudo apt-cdrom add
>      Insert the CD, and press enter.
>   2.Run:
>                sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> To install directly from the ISO image
>
>   1. Mount the ISO to /cdrom:
>                sudo mount -t iso9660 ubuntu-6.06-alternate-i386.iso /cdrom
> -o loop
>       Using the full path and proper name for the ISO image
>   2. Run:
>                sudo apt-cdrom -m add
>
>   3. Run:
>                sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
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