[PLUG] Linux Clinic Sunday October 21

Tony Rick tonyr42 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 23:06:10 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:51 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:29:30 -0700
>> Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> dijo:
>>
>> >Alternate install images (along with some install features like RAID
>> >support) were dropped for the 12.10 launch.  There is a lot of chatter
>> >about it out there, and lot's o' disappointment. Canonical giveth and
>> >Canonical taketh away.
>>
>> The alternate images have been handy to me at the Clinic. On more than
>> one occasion someone has wanted to upgrade from whatever Ubuntu they
>> currently have to the latest. We don't have a lot of bandwidth at Free
>> Geek, but the Alternate images allow an upgrade from CD rather than
>> over the net connection. Are you telling me that the Alternate images
>> will be no longer? if so, how can I upgrade an existing Ubuntu without
>> a net connection?
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> Here's what the 12.10 Beta2 Technical Overview<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Beta2>says:
>
>> Offline upgrade options via alternate CDs are no longer offered for
>>> Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Please ensure you have network
>>> connectivity to one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible
>>> mirror and follow the instructions above.
>>
>>
> I have not yet been able to locate the same proclamation for the official
> release,  but I strongly suspect that it exists.  I am afraid that the
> current answer to your question "How can I upgrade..." is: "You can't".
>  The best I can hope for at this point is that the community will come up
> with one, or Canonical relents (highly unlikely, IMHO).
>
> (repeat the chorus: 'Canonical giveth...')
>
> --
> - tony
> "I come from the nowhere, I go to the noplace, und here I am!"
> Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Popeye, 1939)
>
>

12.10 Release Notes<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop>start
off saying

> There is no longer a traditional CD-sized image, DVD or alternate image,
> but rather a single 800MB Ubuntu image that can be used from USB or DVD.


There is an Ubuntu Forums thread titled  *Don't allow Ubuntu to drop
alternate installers! *in the Community Cafe section, but not much of it is
very helpful beyond my earlier suggestions.

-- 
- tony
"I come from the nowhere, I go to the noplace, und here I am!"
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Popeye, 1939)



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