Install 8.04 over a previous 7.10

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2008 05:57 PM, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 19:25 -0500, Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> I do not have any idea what the "dapper-updates" software channel is
>> or how to enable it.
>> As far as I know I have all the updates. Whenever it tells me there is
>> an update I update it.
> 
> dapper-updates is a special software repository (channel). Ubuntu
> promises that functionality does not change after release. Sometimes,
> however, Ubuntu would like to push important updates for software
> problems or, like in this case, updates that are needed for a smooth
> upgrade. ?To give administrator the choice about applying them, these
> updates are separated into their own channel.
> 
> Navigate to "System" > "Administration" > "Software Properties" and make
> sure that dapper-updates is enabled there.


I suspect that it is more to do with ensuring that the next step works
properly:

"Be sure that you have all updates applied before you upgrade."

But then there is no basic instruction to do so, such as:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

or System|Administration|Update Manger

I do find it interesting that the recommendation is to upgrade via the
network:

Upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS

This section describes how to perform 6.06 LTS -> 8.04 LTS upgrades.
Network upgrade for Ubuntu desktops (recommended)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
?

Seems to me that doing so has a much larger margin for failure,
particularly with the onslaught of users attempting to upgrade from
overloades servers on release day(s), and _always_ server timeouts
errors on those days.

Personally, I'd recommend upgrading from the alternate CD, and then
downloading the remaining fixes/updates following the basic/bulk
conversion. Then again, perhaps there is something in
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/ that is
immediately needed that is not on the CD.