9.04 Beta loading

Knute Johnson knute2009 at knutejohnson.com
Sat Mar 28 16:47:54 UTC 2009


Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>>     I just d/l the Beta version of 9.04 and installed it on my old small 
>>> nVidia computer with 8.04 and 8.10 in their partitions. This is in 
>>> /dev/sda9 which I made this evening.
>>>
>>>     I was quite happy with the loading. I was surprised that my new 
>>> partition was not shown as a place to put 9.04. I choose to do a manual 
>>> selection and that worked.
>>>
>>>     I have the proper nvidia driver d/l and it worked as it should.
>>>
>>>     To this point 9.04 Beta is a keeper.
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> I'm not that familiar with U, if I install the 9.04 beta, when the final 
>> is released can I just do an upgrade or something or do I have to reinstall?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   
>     Hi, the Beta version is so close to done, I expect it will take few 
> updates to make it the version everyone will d/l in the months to come. 
> You can install 9.04 Beta and that will be your 9.04 forever. I was able 
> to d/l the LiveCD in less than an hour and a half. I went to Google and 
> found the site.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

Thanks!

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Knute Johnson

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