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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:34:32PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is a test of endurance. lol
Good thing there has been a good Raptors game on.
Going form 6.04 to 6.10 was a 1,000 file download and took 75 minutes.
6.10 to 7.04 seems about the same.
Will 7.04 to 7.10 be the same?
Good thing I am patient tonight.
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Well it entirely depends on which packages changed. It is also quite
possible that an upgrade from 6.04 to 7.10 directly (assuming ubuntu
supports doing such a thing) would not be much bigger than any of the
other updates. There often seems to be a certain set of packages that
always get updated no matter what (kernel, libc, gnome, kde, etc).
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The release notes were clear. The only way to get to 7.10 was from 7.04.<br>
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Release 6.04 is a stable release with a long time support commitment.
And there have been no updates for six months. To get to 6.10 the
update manager had to be run at the command line with a special switch.<br>
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It was straight forward going to 7.04 and then to 7.10. But each of the
three took 75-90 minutes.<br>
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For someone in a hurry, just installing 7.10 would have been faster,
but taken more interactive time since everything would have to be
configured. Over the three hours, I only had to attend to the upgrades
for about 15 minutes.<br>
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Patience and having something else to do, is the key.<br>
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Stephen <br>
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