Gibbon to Hron

joe_dunne

Hi all,

Will my installation of Gutsy Gibbon automatically upgrade itself to Hardy Heron?

Thanks
KJoe

FruitLover

Not unless you tell it to (it'll mention a new version on the usual 'updates' applet)

corkie

joe_dunne wrote: »

Hi all,

Will my installation of Gutsy Gibbon automatically upgrade itself to Hardy Heron?

Thanks
KJoe

Due to be realesed tomorrow the 24th.


Went it get's on the mirrors you should be prompted or give the option to upgrade.

If not you can request it to do so: see here for more info

Bard

Quick question on this... Can I just boot into 7.10 (gibbon), pop in the Heron LiveCD and upgrade using it?

Steveire

Bard wrote: »

Quick question on this... Can I just boot into 7.10 (gibbon), pop in the Heron LiveCD and upgrade using it?

Nope. It might be possible to upgrade using the alternate cd.

You can either back up your /home/ and clean reinstall, or upgrade gutsy in place, downloading all the packages again.

I might be wrong off course. Maybe you can copy all the packages to /var/apt/cache and then do the upgrade and it'll use those packages instead of downloading them again. Only thing is that the packages might not be on the liveCD at all. I think when 'installing' with the liveCD it just copies itself to the hard drive. With the alternate cd it actually installs the packages, so that's why you can upgrade with it.

Bard

Actually, looks like you're right, Steveire.

According to the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS download page (here), the alternative disc can be used for:

• creating pre-configured OEM systems;
• setting up automated deployments;
  
• upgrading from older installations without network access;
• LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
• installs on systems with less than about 384MB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop environment reasonably).