Upgrade to Gutsy via DVD

[NoOp]

On 03/18/2008 03:38 PM, Ken McLennan wrote:
> G'day there One & All,
> 
>     I'm  currently running Feisty on my laptop, dual booting with Vista 
> and it all works fine. I would like to upgrade to Gutsy but I have some 
> reservations.
> 
>     I previously clicked the 'upgrade' button on the software 
> installation window and the resulting mess led to a disk reformat to get 
> back to Feisty (I accept that it was more than likely that the install 
> could have been saved had I known what to look for) but I'm just a tad 
> hesitant to give it another go. I've installed Gutsy on my desktop from 
> a magazine cover disk and it was fine except that it now can't get 
> online. I think there's a kernel module not loading, but it's not a 
> critical issue at the moment so I've not chased it up yet.

Provide some details & folks here should be able to get you online.
Unless of course if you are using wireless... then it might take some
extra work. Wireless was working just fine on my son's Feisty installs,
but fell in the crapper with Gutsy.

> 
>     My question is...   can I use the standard 7.10 DVD installer to 
> upgrade my current Feisty setup? The Ubuntu site describes how to do it 
> with the alternative iso, but if I have to download it I may as well 
> just click the 'upgrade' button again and risk losing the lot once more.
> 
>     Any advice or suggestions are gratefully accepted.
> 
> Thanks for listening
> Ken McLennan
> Qld, Australia
> 

The dvd includes all of the alternate iso software so you should be able
to if you already have the dvd. However, if you don't it's a huge
download compared to the alternate cd. I've performed the upgrade to
gutsy (from feisty) using the alternate cd and no network on several
machines and it went well - better than the online upgrades as a matter
of fact. After the upgrade then I did the standard apt-get
update/upgrade to get all the updates.