oygle
December 16th, 2008, 06:01 AM
I have Hardy on a computer that only has dialup. All updates are applied, as at today.
I wanted to upgrade to 8.10, however it would take days with the dialup connection. Here is the plan ..
1. Set the 8.04 to upgrade to 8.10 . It will go and get a heap of info about Intrepid, and show me all the (many) updates to do.
2. I press 'cancel'. and exit Synaptic.
3. Then go to package manager, it should show all the same updates, that are need to go to 8.10
4. I use the option to generate a script. This will contain all the .deb files to download, in a shell/bash script file, with all the 'wget' commands. Everything in the script to get all the necessary files.
5. I transfer the script to a computer that has a wireless connection, a lot faster than dialup. It is Win XP (yuk), but will be able to run the script as a .bat file, and as long as I have 'wget' on the XP box, all the files should download okay.
Now, if the above sounds okay, my only concern is to verify those .deb files that have been d/loaded by XP.
Can I just run MD5 checksum or similar on all the files, and then check them against some other file/s that will have the MD5 checksum for each file.
I want to be sure the files downloaded by XP are (a) Virus free (can run Comodo on them, and (b) Are an exact copy of the .deb files downloaded from the Ubuntu site.
Then, .... I can transfer all the .deb files to 'apt cache' , and let the computer upgrade to 8.10, I'm 99% sure it will look in the cache first, so _should_ be no need to go out to the internet for the upgrade to 8.10
Oygle
I wanted to upgrade to 8.10, however it would take days with the dialup connection. Here is the plan ..
1. Set the 8.04 to upgrade to 8.10 . It will go and get a heap of info about Intrepid, and show me all the (many) updates to do.
2. I press 'cancel'. and exit Synaptic.
3. Then go to package manager, it should show all the same updates, that are need to go to 8.10
4. I use the option to generate a script. This will contain all the .deb files to download, in a shell/bash script file, with all the 'wget' commands. Everything in the script to get all the necessary files.
5. I transfer the script to a computer that has a wireless connection, a lot faster than dialup. It is Win XP (yuk), but will be able to run the script as a .bat file, and as long as I have 'wget' on the XP box, all the files should download okay.
Now, if the above sounds okay, my only concern is to verify those .deb files that have been d/loaded by XP.
Can I just run MD5 checksum or similar on all the files, and then check them against some other file/s that will have the MD5 checksum for each file.
I want to be sure the files downloaded by XP are (a) Virus free (can run Comodo on them, and (b) Are an exact copy of the .deb files downloaded from the Ubuntu site.
Then, .... I can transfer all the .deb files to 'apt cache' , and let the computer upgrade to 8.10, I'm 99% sure it will look in the cache first, so _should_ be no need to go out to the internet for the upgrade to 8.10
Oygle