local distribution status

[Joshua Henderson]

I would be happy to deliever CDs to my local area to save postage.

On 6/29/06, Morgan Storey <me at morganstorey.com> wrote:
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>  I am happy to do this as well, as long as they pay shipping.
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> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 11:31 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
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> 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 myDapper CD packs)If anyone doesn't have access to the broadband/bandwidth they need todo this, I'm happy to download and snail mail the correct CD to anyonethat needs it (providing I don't have to send too many off, I don'thave a billionaires backing when I do that) ;-)
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