<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan C. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>><br>> On 6/15/07, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I have a pressed DVD of Edgy, and a burned copy of Feisty.<br>> For some reason,
<br>> > my laptop won't read the burned DVD (I've tried 2 burned<br>> discs with no<br>> > luck), but it will read the pressed DVD. I have an<br>> external DVD drive that<br>> > can read the burned disc. In order to install KUbuntu, I
<br>> could do one of 2<br>> > things: 1. Install Edgy then upgrade later. 2. Boot Edgy,<br>> but install<br>> > Feisty off the external DVD drive. It seems like I've<br>> heard of problems<br>> > with 1, so I'd like to do 2. Anyone know how to do this?
<br>><br>> Why mess with DVDs? Just download the CD image of Feisty and install<br>> that. Your laptop can boot burned CDs, right? All packages you would<br>> need you can just get via apt, with the front end of your choice.
<br>><br><br>I second this approach. However, it is possible to upgrade from another<br>installed version. In a nutshell, you "simply" get everything up-to-date<br>with Apt (try not to install extra packages). And then change the
<br>apt-sources to the newer version you want to install and run apt again. You<br>should be able to find several references for this technique with Google. I<br>have also been able to "upgrade" from Debian to Ubuntu using this method as
<br>well.</blockquote><div><br><br>This is actually where I've heard people having problems. I've heard a couple people say to install fresh if possible, don't upgrade. I'm guessing it was a YMMV type of thing.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">BTW, is there an ISP or somebody with nearby mirrors for Debian or Ubuntu?</blockquote>
<div><br><br>Sorry, don't know of any. I thought ISU used to mirror some distros. I just used a mirror off <a href="http://kubuntu.org">kubuntu.org</a>. I found the mirror to be faster than bittorrent.<br></div><br>
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