Updated 17.10 RC ISOs now available

[ray burke]

Nils 20/10/2017 in  win7 on dongle...

 thanks for that,  where  do I find the download, and also cause I have
just upgraded
to 14.04 which I now like, I  might keep for a while as seems to be very
complicated?

Ray
PS what about the last question that I asked you?

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> ray burke wrote:
> > I have just recently upgraded K12.04 lts to K14.04 lts, and all is
> > running fine after some teething
> > problems, as able to use both a dongle stick and dial-up.
> > What I would like to know is can I  download a k17.10 iso and do some
> > testing to find if I like
> > and maybe upgrade to it with a direct upgrade, and how big is it to
> > download for an
> > iso?
>
> You can't upgrade directly from 14.04 LTS to 17.10. The steps would be
> 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS -> 16.10 (*) -> 17.04 (*) -> 17.10. (*) These
> steps would be a bit tricky because the standard repos are no longer
> available and you have to adapt /etc/apt/sources.list. So IMHO for you
> the only useful way to get to 17.10 would be a new installation. Of
> course you could test this use case - the download of the iso image is
> 1.6 GB (64-bit) or 1.7 GB (32-bit). IIRC you wrote some time ago that
> 16.04 LTS wouldn't work with your dongle stick. So you should first try
> the live system and find out if 17.10 works with your hardware before
> you really do a new installation.
>
> OTOH please remember that 17.10 will only have 9 months support, so you
> shouldn't miss the next upgrade to 18.04 LTS next spring. If you don't
> want to do the next upgrade so soon or if you want to avoid a new
> installation, you may rather wait for 18.04 LTS because then the
> possible upgrade path will be 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS -> 18.04 LTS.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
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