Re: [gNewSense-users] newbie question about upgrading gNewSense

[Karl Goetz]

Dean Linkous wrote:
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> > I am a newbie to the world of gNewSense and Ubuntu, so I will risk a rather 
> > >primitive question here:
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> no risk, except you might get a answer :)
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> > Should I upgrade from gNewSense 1.0 to gNewSense 1.1 and, if yes, how >exactly?
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> 1.1 is a pretty minor upgrade IIRC so apt-get upgrade and/or apt-get 
> dist-upgrade should do it. If your install is up to date then I don't think .1 
> would be a large download. Try it  and see how much it says it will download 
> and then if it is too much then when it asks about continuing just hit N for no.
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pretty minor is still something in the order of 100mb iirc (note i 
haven't checked this)
> > I suppose that I can get a friend to get me the gNewSense 1.1 iso and update >my 
> > installation, but since I am new to Ubuntu -like upgrades, what will that >do to my 
> > configuration, home directory, etc.?  Brian wrote that I can update, >but can I do this 
> > without using my phone at all, only with the gNewSense  1.1 >CD?  Or will I have to 
> > re-update another 100-200 MB of packages by dial-up >download?
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> Good question - does the CD have a upgrade option or is a reinstall necessary? 
> I assume you have to reinstall if you use the new CD, I could (likely) be wrong 
> though. But as stated earlier 1.1 upgrade should not be anywhere near 100mb of 
> packages but you can always try it and see and choose to abort if it is too 
> much. I would guess it is about 15megs...
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I think the cd can be used for updates, but again, i haven't checked. 
the update *will* be more then 15mb, as firefox and openoffice.org are 
in there.
kk

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