[PLUG] Linux Clinic Sunday October 21

[Tony Rick]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tony Rick <tonyr42 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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:
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>>> >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.
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>>> 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:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> (repeat the chorus: 'Canonical giveth...')
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>> --
>> - 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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> 12.10 Release Notes<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop>start off saying
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> --
> - 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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Saw  this<http://askubuntu.com/questions/202769/why-does-upgrade-from-12-04-to-12-10-using-a-cd-dvd-still-require-download>at
askubuntu.com in response to a comment I made about the same issue:

> There's a workaround to this: Boot into the Live media and choose "Test
> Ubuntu" instead of "Install Ubuntu". Now, open "Install Ubuntu 12.10". The
> upgrade option will now work. :-)

YMMV.
Thanks to Benjamin Karensa for suggesting that there really is a solution,
sort of.
-- 
- tony
"I come from the nowhere, I go to the noplace, und here I am!"
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Popeye, 1939)