Well, I have found a way to force "hardy" to look in the cd-rom for the packages: sudo ./hardy --cdrom=/media/cdrom --frontend=DistUpgradeViewText
Unfortunately, it dies with the following message: Could not calculate the upgrade -- "distribution upgrade" hangs during update to hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186465 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs