Hi, I obtained potato CDs dated 7/18/2000, so they were probably not the latest cycle 3 ones.
I had an old 486-33 with 8mb ram and a 120mb hard drive with slink on it from last year (from 3/99 CDs). With a 16mb swap partition and a 102mb root partition, at the start of the upgrade I had about 50mb used, and when I was done I have about 87mb used. Following the upgrade instructions resulted in a properly upgraded system. I don't remember any particular problems . . . it seemed to work well. I don't have enough room on this machine to install kernel source and compile, so I figured I would try the kernel package, which is something I've never tried before. The kernel package worked fine. Later I tried to install potato from scratch on this machine. I was going to wipe the drive and do a clean install. Unfortunately, the latest boot floppies won't start the install with only 8mb of ram (the documentation says 12mb min), so I gave up. Why screw around with this tiny machine? Just curious. I wanted to see how the upgrade would go on this junk box before I start upgrading the important machines. Thought you might like to know . . . -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
