Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade surprisingly easy

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Yesterday the regular upgrade system on my Ubuntu systems did more than
> just notify me of the latest Firefox bugfix; they informed me that a
> system upgrade is possible, to Ubuntu 9.04. Anyone following Linux news
> knows that this would indeed be the global launch date.
>
> I moved cautiously, doing it only on a single system. I have had a mixed
> past with the Ubuntu update system, finding it to be rather fragile and
> having too many installation scenarios that it couldn't cope with.
>
> The first install, Ubuntu on a netbook, went slowly. This was to be
> expected, given the Eeepc's slow processor speed and the likelihood that
> people from all over the world were hammering Ubuntu servers to do the
> same download as I did. It was so slow that I had to cancel the package
> download when I had to go home from the office.
>
> Previously such a cancellation would have required a complete restart of
> the process. But upon getting home and restarting, the update system
> found what had already been downloaded and picked up right where the
> aborted install left off. It went smoothly, and all of my netbook's
> features (such as recongnition of the keyboard commpands to turn certain
> hardware bits on and off) worked fine.
>
> So now I'm trying it on another system, a Kubuntu desktop. So far, so good.
>
> - Evan
>
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yes if you download a live disc and burn it putting the disk into a
running system should prompt you for updates. but it will only update
packages on the cd so another update will be required after reboot.
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