On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:41:29PM -0800, GECOS wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently tried corel-linux. After using this I realized why I use to > like debian so much when I used it for a short period previously. > > Corel is okay, but too many things are not present that are in the normal > kde. > > I would like to try debian but am concerned because if I buy slink my Matrox > G400 video card will not be supported. > > How hard would it be to install slink then upgrade to the new Xfree without > setting up Xwindows?
Not hard at all. Just add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list that points at a slink deb for the latest X, then apt-get update, apt-get install <the various X packages>. Only requirement is that you have Internet connection. Even that's not a strict requirement if you can get the debs onto your machine another way (zip disk, cd, etc). Then you'd just use dpkg -i <X packages>. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
