local distribution status

[Morgan Storey]

I am happy to do this as well, as long as they pay shipping.

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:31 +0800, Senectus . wrote:

> On 29/06/06, David Symons <ubuntu at liberatedcomputing.net> wrote:
> >  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.
> >
> Ahh I didn't know this.. (I wondered why there was only one CD in my
> Dapper CD packs)
> If anyone doesn't have access to the broadband/bandwidth they need to
> do this, I'm happy to download and snail mail the correct CD to anyone
> that needs it (providing I don't have to send too many off, I don't
> have a billionaires backing when I do that) ;-)
> 
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