Trying to install Natty Alpha 2

[David Curtis]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am very interested in trying out the Unity interface of the next
> > Ubuntu release.
> > I downloaded the Alpha 2 live CD (and redownloaded it), checked the
> > MD5 sum, but I get a kernel panic at boot.
> >
> > How can I get a working version of Natty?
>
> You can install Maverick, boot into text mode, update it fully, change
> the occurences of maverick in sources.list to natty (in vi: ":%
> s/maverick/natty/g"), and update your system (do an upgrade before a
> dist-upgrade).
>
> (You should probably report the bad CD on launchpad, although, if it's
> a daily cd, it might just be today's bad iso and tomorrow's will be
> fixed).
>

The recommended version upgrade method is to use update-manager, a simple
'sudo update-manager -d' should suffice, the -d is for devel. If that does
not work follow the instructions here, just don't forget the -d:

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade
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