Maverick on USB created on Jaunty

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 20:41 -0500, J wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 20:32, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> The proper way to upgrade is via apt (or technically Update Manager,
> though I prefer apt-get from command line).

That may be so. After attempting it twice with earlier versions of
Ubuntu and having the upgrades fail completely[1], I no longer bother.
Is the process now reliable?

Another reason for me not doing this (and I may be completely mistaken
here) is that I thought/think that it has to happen over the network.
Being as I am at the far end of a wet piece of string network-wise, I
want/need to upgrade from local storage. I spend the requisite hours
getting the release via BitTorrent unattended. Can apt-get do an
"apt-get dist-upgrade" from a CD?

> You're talking about a re-install, basically, not an upgrade.

Yes. An "up-install", perhaps :-)

> However, I agree with your complaint. BUT IMHO, usb-creator is not the
> best tool out there, there are better means of creating a bootable USB
> stick that DO work across older and current versions.

What tools are better?

Regards, K.

[1] Some stuff not upgraded, some stuff removed and not replaced, some
configurations overwritten, in one case failure to reboot ... This was
back around Faun.

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