[ubuntu-za] Alternate CD

[Vijay Makanjee]

I used the alternate to upgrade to Hardy. It worked fine.

Vijay Makanjee
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Bill Cairns wrote:
> I see that the note for alternate CDs says:
> 
> The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist 
> installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:
> 
>     * setting up automated deployments;
>     * upgrading from older installations without network access;
>     * LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
>     * installs on systems with less than about 256MB of RAM (although
>       note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop
>       environment reasonably). 
> 
> Has anyone used it for the upgrading option? It sounds a pretty good way 
> to go.
> 
> Bill
> 
> (I have three machines that will have to be upgraded eventually).
> 
>