my experience was no problem, but it was slow... I just followed the steps, had a glass of wine, walked away. Slow but easy. It must have been busy on the source, because the download rate was much slower than I normally experience. <div> <br></div><div>Anyway, easy. It's done. working through the Top things to do memo now. </div><div><br></div><div>The sun virtual box menu ... hmmm not working the way I thought. Perhaps I failed to read the instructions. </div> <div><br></div><div>thanks </div><div><br></div><div>Jay <br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Randy Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:randyokc@gmail.com">randyokc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I am very disappointed with the Ubuntu upgrade process this time.<br> After attempting to perform a distribution upgrade, I find it would be<br> much faster to download the CD using bittorrent. After downloading the<br> desktop cd, I find out I need the "Alternate" CD. So I download that.<br> I run the cdupgrade script, which gives me the option of allowing<br> packages to also download over the network. I say yes. But it says 1+<br> day. (Why would I need to download so many packages on day zero)? So I<br> cancel, re-run the script and say no. Still downloads. I untar the<br> python, type<br> ./karmic --cdrom=/cdrom --without-network . It still downloads from the<br> network!!!<br> <br> Also, version upgrade "terminal" window doesn't open, unlike the window<br> in regular updates.<br> <br> It should finish downloading the packages in either 10 hours, or 2 days,<br> 1 hour.<br> <br> Yuck.<br> <br> --Randy<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Ubuntu-us-ma mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br></div></div>