Help upgrading to 10.10

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22:12PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> . Boot into recovery mode and choose netroot
> 
> . Make sure that update-manager-core is installed
> 
> . Make sure that you have "prompt=normal" in
> "/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades"
> 
> . Run "do-release-upgrade --mode desktop" (I'm assuming that you are
> upgrading a desktop and not a server install)

What does --mode desktop do, exactly?

I upgraded my netbook from 10.04 to 10.10 using simply sudo
do-release-upgrade, without booting into recovery mode, and without
--mode desktop.  It seems to work fine.

Marius Gedminas
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