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Upgrade to 8.04 from CD, but without the alternate cd

Asked by Matt Marell

As I have only limited bandwidth available for downloads, I am unable to upgrade online, and neither able to download the alternate cd. I do however have the 8.04 cd, but how can I use this cd to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04, with loosing all my stettings?

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Nizar Kerkeni (nizarus) said : 		#1

just insert the 8.04 CD when your session in 7.10 is open. The system will detect the CD and you will be asked if you want to upgrade ;)

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Matt Marell (marellmh) said : 		#2

Thanks
I did that but I do not get the question if I want to upgrade! It just shows me the listing of all the files.
Which file on the CD do I have to run from the FileBrowser to get this going?

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Nizar Kerkeni (nizarus) said : 		#3

ok Matt,
in this case you have to add manually the CD to your sources.
in a terminal type : sudo apt-cdrom add
after that you can run synaptic and upgrade the packages.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

I think you can't, you must have the alternate cd, read at end of this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

Hope this helps

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Matt Marell (marellmh) said : 		#5

Thanks Nizar,
I am new at this, and started Synaptic for the first time. When I say mark all upgrades, it does not tell me if they have to be checked against the CD-rom of 8.04. Could you please take me step by step through this procedure?

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Nizar Kerkeni (nizarus) said : 		#6

ok Matt;
if you haven't use synaptic before you can be sure that the proposed updates are from the CD. I don't know how you can verify that, sorry.

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