Re: Aborted an Ubuntu 12.04 Upgrade resulted in Booting into Blank Screen

Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:

That's odd.. The way the Ubuntu upgrader works is specifically designed to avoid that problem of internet connections timing out halfway through.

This is probably inherited from apt-get and aptitude, which both download all packages before starting to install them. The only exceptions (as noted in this thread) are non-free packages that download the software from the vendor's site. I don't install these and I doubt that they're included in a standard installation.