laptop battery died while upgrading using Pre-upgrade

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Jun 17 03:37:07 UTC 2009


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I know that you can resume if you interrupt the downloads before it
> reboots. I am not sure about the install process. I guess it kind of
> depends on where things were when the battery died.

Yeah, but the resume part is dependent on the user clicking the CANCEL 
button while the files are downloading.  I don't think that applies when 
the battery ups and dies in the middle of installing....  The software 
has no way to process the abort, the CPU just stops cold.

> Mikkel

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