Comment 37 for bug 114312

I seriously doubt you can test this with a LiveCD, though it is possible to make a LiveCD use swap partition (at least Knoppix does, so I think there's a way to make Ubuntu do it). I didn't use LiveCD to test this anyway.

I have installed Hardy Alpha2 onto a dedicated partition on my hard drive for testing, and it did well. For those of you who feels like going this way I would recommend NOT to use your working system's /home as testing system's /home. Some applications are newer versions in Hardy, they convert their files to newer formats, and then the applications installed on your working system may not read the data properly.