Thursday, October 18th, 2007...11:29 pm

Upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon Fast

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Everyone is excited that Ubuntu 7.10 is finally out. (Have a look at the new feature tour here.)

But the servers are getting hammered, so most people are waiting on the upgrade (voluntarily or otherwise).

No need to wait! The more people who download from Bittorent, the faster your speeds! Grab it while it’s hot!
Download a copy of the alternative i386 CD here via Bittorent.
Mac and 64 bit torrents can be obtained here.

Once you have the alternative CD, burn it, boot from it, select the upgrade option, and away you go.

Want to be environmentally friendly and save a CD? Try this:

  1. Mount the ISO to /cdrom:
    sudo mount -t iso9660 ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso /cdrom -o loop

    Using the full path and proper name for the ISO image.
  2. Open a terminal and type:
    sudo /cdrom/cdromupgrade

    Then the upgrade utility should launch and run from the CD.

Make sure you have the alternative CD and NOT the standard desktop CD.

Good luck and happy upgrading!

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  • Dakota
    October 19th, 2007 at 12:03 am

    Any reviews of how the Gutsy Gibbon works yet?

  • immrlizard
    October 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    Great Idea!

    @Dakota: It is the best ubuntu yet. I was one of those trying to install last night. (not fun)

    The full version fixed the little glitches I had in beta. Everything works great.

  • Ysangkok
    October 20th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    I got the same idea and tried it. However, the cdromupgrade script freezed after some time, every time.

    So I added the CD-ROM til /etc/apt/sources.list and just used “apt-get dist-upgrade”.

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