Easy way to go to hoary?

[Travis Watkins]

On 5/1/05, Psquared <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I am on Warty with backports. I have tried to upgrade to Hoary
> using apt-get and synaptic (changing sources.list from Warty to Hoary)
> but it chokes on the last step. I posted a message about this before
> and was told that it appeared I had an outdated version of dpkg and
> bzip. When I checked the versions of these programs it appeared I had
> the most current ones available for Warty, but the dist-upgrade would
> not work. That is why I have turned to the ISO.
> 
> I know how to change the sources.list to look for the CD so I'm going
> to give it a shot. What I was curious about was the post which
> indicated that if you download and make a Hoary install CD and put it
> in your CD drive that it will ask me whether I want to upgrade or do a
> clean install. Is this the ISO? Do I have to boot it to get to this
> point? If I run dist-upgrade or smart upgrade in synaptic with CD
> sources enabled will it also ask me this question??
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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Appearently if you burn a copy of the ISO and put it in your drive
while GNOME or whatever is running a dialog will popup and ask you if
you want to upgrade. I don't know if this is a hoary thing or if it
worked in warty too.

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Travis Watkins
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