Comment 14 for bug 255545

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.