How many megabytes is 14.04.1 upgrade?

[Charles Irons]

Thanks to Nils Kassube

Before I tried starting the download to check the size, I got advice to
run "do-release-upgrade" and that showed me a hardware graphics problem:

"Your graphics hardware may not be fully supported in Ubuntu 14.04. 
Running the 'Unity' desktop environment is not fully supported by 
your graphics hardware. You will maybe end up in a very slow 
environment after the upgrade. Our advice is to keep the LTS version 
for now. For more information see 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForUnity3D "

This old (2005) desktop PC of mine has an Asrock P4VM8 motherboard with
S3 UnichronR PRO OnBoard VGA that supports DX7 H/W.

As a retired end user that means little to me except that it probably is
not easy to substitute with a newer VGA board.

So I will see if there is a different program instead of Unity.  Maybe
Mate still exists and may work?

When I find an answer to the Unity issue, I will then try the upgrade to
14.04

Thanks again for your advice.  Chas.I

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 20:39 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Charles Irons wrote:
> > I want to upgrade to Trusty Tahr but am wary of the download being
> > bigger than my data deal that is capped at 2 Gig each month.
> > 
> > So please tell me how many megabytes will be downloaded.
> 
> That depends on the amount of packages you have installed. Therefore we 
> can't tell you a certain number. As an example, I have upgraded a system 
> yesterday which had a lot of additional packages installed. The download 
> was about 1GB. But before the program started the download, it told me 
> the download size and asked if I wanted to proceed. So if the download 
> size is too big for you, you could cancel the upgrade at that point.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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