Installation: download updates while installing seems to have done nothing

[Arlie Stephens]

I was installing Ubuntu 12.10. This was a fresh install into a newly made partition. The system was on the corporate LAN, which has functional DHCP, DNS and internet connectivity. I selected "download updates while installing". The system installed normally - but the moment I went to install an additional package, I found that a large number [100s, I believe] of packages needed to be updated. I used the Unity desktop's GUI tool to accomplish this, which worked fine - with no manual tinkering with my network settings at any time, beyond telling the installer the machine's name. (I.e. if internet access worked at that time, it should have worked before the post-install reboot.)

Either this is a no-op, or it only installs _some_ of the needed updates - or it's very literal, and downloaded them without installing them, and the GUI tool found where it had placed them. [It doesn't give me as much visibility into what it's doing as if I'd used "apt-get upgrade".]

I didn't see any error messages during the installation process. I don't know what may have been logged, and no longer have access to the system to check farther details.