Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > "Bryan K. Walton" wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have > > installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly > > configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have > > been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files > > burned onto a CD-ROM. I need to copy the files from the CD-ROM to a temp > > directory on my /usr partition. Can someone please tell me exactly > > what I need to type in order to do this? How do I get into the > > CDROM directory and how do I make Debian copy everything from that > > CDROM to /usr/temp (a subdirectory I created for this purpose)? > > > > Thanks! > > Bryan > >
I missed the version number bit. If you're using potato packages, I don't think they will work in Slink without upgrading further. MaryK