This bug is STILL THERE on Interpid. And in my opinion, it's a bloody
big bug. I am dumbfounded that Canonical did not test this before the
release.
So I burned an ISO of Ubuntu 8.10. I put it in to the drive, but it
insisted on installing clean instead of offering me an upgrade to my
existing Ubuntu installation on this laptop (which has the latest 8.04
version and updates installed). There is no Windows or OSX CD that
wouldn’t offer me an upgrade.
Add the CD as a source package to my existing installation you say?
Sure. This is what I get in this case:
E:Could not open file
/cdrom/dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages - open (2 No such file
or directory), E:Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9 Bad file
descriptor), W:Hash mismatch for: main/binary-i386/Packages, E:Could not
open file /cdrom/dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages - open
(2 No such file or directory), E:Unable to determine the file size -
fstat (9 Bad file descriptor), W:Hash mismatch for:
restricted/binary-i386/Packages
In other words, I have no upgrade path through the CD. I just spent 2
hours downloading the ISO, and 700 MBs from my Comcast monthly
allowance. If you haven't heard, we can't use as much bandwidth as we
want now with Comcast, we got to be careful. So I don't feel very good
having downloaded the 700 MB ISO for nothing.
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requires uncompressed Packages files on CDs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255545
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