<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.2.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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 <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForUnity3D">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/UpdateManagerWarningForUnity3D</A> " 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: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>