Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade surprisingly easy

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:34:46PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | 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.
> 
> Do you know if the update program can grab packages from a 9.04 disk
> if available?
> 
> I don't mean: boot off the 9.04 disk and say "update system" (or
> whatever the phraseology is).

apt certainly can, so yes.

man sources.list, and find the syntax for adding cdrom repositories,
or just use apt-setup to do it I guess.

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Len Sorensen
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