local distribution status

[David Symons]

On 6/29/06, Toby Anderson <toby.anderson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> that's great, but all the upgrade instructions I've come accross assume
> you have a broadband connection. How would you upgrade from breezy to dapper
> using a cd from shipit?
>

Hi Tony,

You can't.  Shipit send you the Desktop CD only and it only includes a small
apt repository for installing things like build-essential and its
dependencies once you've done the install from LiveCD mode.

You'd need to download and burn the altnernate CD in order to do an upgrade
from CD.  Yes I realise the irony, I've seen some angst about this already -
it will be interesting to see how big it gets.  Even so, if Canonical really
needed to save costs by shipping only one CD, I feel they made the right
choice.  Particularly from a marketing perspective, which is what shipit
really is about.

Cheers, Dave.
-- 
David Symons
Canberra, Australia
http://www.liberatedcomputing.net
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