John@ Thanks for the reply i am new to ubuntu would you please guide me, i hve already ubuntu 11.04 to upgrade this to beta version do i need to apply some patch or i need to download the new image for that. after searching on Internet i found the process of upgrading the same from version 10 to the latest ......... dardack@ Thanks for the reply the link which you have provided is for the AMD machine i am running my ubuntu on the intel machine so i am getting error incompatible hardware. regards Nirjhar