Hoary iso releases

[Kent Frazier]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:16:05 +0000, John Levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
> Quick question:
> 
> when will Hoary pre-release isos be made available for downloading and
> testing?

They already are.  Check out http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/
and you can download the somewhat more stable Array releases.  For the
absolute most recent versions, go to
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ .

Be forewarned that I have not been successful at all in using these to
install.  The installer goes through just fine, but at least as of
December 17 (and Array 2), there was a python conflict between 2.3 and
2.4 (some packages still rely on 2.3 but python has been upgraded to
2.4) that prevented the ubuntu-desktop meta-package from being
installed, leaving the user with a far from complete install.  Also,
despite an hour or so of trying, I could not get the x server to work
at all.  Still not sure what was wrong there.

The easiest way to get Hoary if you are already running Warty is to
edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all occurrences of warty to
hoary.  Then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  There are some
things that you will have to change around a little afterward, but I
didn't find it that difficult.

Good luck.

Kent