Is upgrading Mint 13 to Mint 14 from a DVD-iso possible?

JZL240I-U · 12-19-2012, 11:33 AM

I have installed Mint 13 and downloaded the .iso of Mint 14, which is now on hard disk and can also be started from an USB-stick. I mounted the iso via

Code:

 mount -o loop,rw /home/me/mint14 /mnt

and looked for individual files, but no luck. There is a huge squashfs file probably containing all those nice new updated programs in compressed form. Is there any possibility to start Mint 13 and upgrade from the .iso? How would I do that? Thanks for an input

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Janus_Hyperion · 12-19-2012, 12:17 PM

As far as I know and seen (in the forums), Mint does not support upgrades using CD/DVD media.

Nevertheless, the two 'official' linux mint upgrade methods are in these links

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/62

See if either of these are of any help. Cheers.

JZL240I-U · 12-20-2012, 01:30 AM

Thanks for these very instructive links. Regrettably the recommended procedure overwrites all settings and users / passwords. I could live with that but...

I don't want to use "apt" since I have only mobile internet.

Is there no possibility to decompress the squashfs file and to update from there? I have a 1 TB hard disk, there is plenty of space there

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