Ubuntu 6-10

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Ubuntu 6.10 Update Notes

For an ~~easy~~ upgrade using as little network as possible. These are just my notes I made during the upgrade. I post them so that they might be of use to someone, but you are responsible for how you use them, not me.

get the alternate install disk off a local university server. Local == no bandwidth == good.
sudo mkdir /media/ISO

sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/ISO
sudo apt-cdrom add -m -d=/media/ISO

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Comment out everything & add the following lines

deb file:/media/ISO edgy main restricted

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

(No, that's not a typo. From the wiki: "The first run of dist-upgrade will upgrade everything except for upstart. After this a second dist-upgrade will finish the upgrade.")

This *will* need to download some stuff, but it will be less then a third of what you'd be downloading otherwise. For me it was 200Mb instead of 700Mb.