Re: upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...

2006-12-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:20:06PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I could just wipe Sarge and install Etch from scratch to get around this > problem, but I would like to try and make the upgrade work. > > Your suggestions are appreciated. > > Regards, > Hi Michael, On

Re: upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...

2006-12-26 Thread macondo
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Michael Fothergill wrote: > So I am now interested to try out gnome rather than xfce4 on the old PC when I > install Etch. I wouldn't. With that kind of hardware, a window manager would be much better. Something like icewm, fluxbox, etc. > But I have a few questions. >

upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...

2006-12-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I installed Sarge 3.1 r3 on a Gateway 2000 PC (133 MHz) with a 13GB hard drive I put in it. I am going to upgrade to Etch RC1. Because the machine is rather slow, I had to remove gnome and replace it with xfce4. I noticed when I installed Etch on my 1200MHz machine at home