Hello All, After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor of floppies, then used apt-get and some pointers gathered from this list to upgrade to woody. Yes, I know I'm hanging onto the leading edge by my fingertips and my timing could be better, but the machine in question isn't doing anything critical and, anyway, it's been fun.
Of course, I hit a snag, or I wouldn't be posting. I didn't install XFree86 or any other X packages the first time around, thinking I'd wait and get the latest of everything once I'd switched to woody. That's turning out to be harder than I expected, with tasksel complaining about a missing x-window-system task and all my other attempts (with apt, etc.) failing for want of some component or another, usually fonts. I've googled fairly hard on this and found a few related threads, but I haven't found that one post I need: "Do this, this and this and startx ought to work." A summary of the necessary steps, or pointers to documentation I might have overlooked, would be most appreciated. Best regards, Michael -- D. Michael McFarland Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]