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glastonbury
April 30th, 2010, 03:53 AM
At the advice of others here, I'm downloading the Alternate CD to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04.

-- Does the CD contain all the latest files? Should I say yes if the updater wants to connect to the server to get newer files?
-- Any general advice from anyone who's gone this route? I have been running 9.10 on a dual boot Win 7 machine for a while with no problems.

Thanks.

ratcheer
April 30th, 2010, 04:49 AM
I upgraded that way. Just make sure NOT to tell it to format your existing partitions and it will upgrade, just fine. Don't worry about how current the files are, just follow up with an update and a safe-upgrade, then everything will definitely be current.

Tim

glastonbury
April 30th, 2010, 05:03 AM
Thanks. I understand what you mean by following up with an update but what do you mean by a further safe-upgrade?

Thanks!

msibda
April 30th, 2010, 08:32 AM
Hi There

Where can the alternate cd be downloaded from?

ratcheer
April 30th, 2010, 12:04 PM
The update just locates the latest changes, the safe-upgrade is what actually installs the changes on your system.

Tim

RobertSwipe
April 30th, 2010, 12:13 PM
Make sure you have a full install CD handy before you start - see my earlier post "Beware upgrading to 10.04 from i386 Alternate CD".