Problem upgrading an offline computer

[Colin Law]

On 10 February 2011 17:34, Mariano Jara <marianojara at afip.gov.ar> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 08:45 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:32:38 +0800, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> > sudo apt-get update/upgrade       (this is important)
>> >  Then and only then go and upgrade to maverick.
>>
>> Oh, after I sent this message, I realised that since you do not have any
>> connection, you may not have updated/upgraded your system at all and so
>> your upgrade to maverick fails. So...sorry, you may not be able to carry
>> out the upgrade to maverick this way if this is the case. You may have to
>> fresh-install your system then.
>
>
> So I guess I have no choice but to fresh-install Ubuntu.

Remember that you can do an install without re-formatting the root
directory.  Then it will replace all the system stuff but leave your
home folder, so you will not loose your users and config stuff.  Just
make sure you select *not* to re-format /.  I think you may have to go
down the 'Advanced' option in the install to do this.

Colin