My brother is trying to upgrade debian from slink to potato on his 8Meg RAM machine. He has about 20Meg swap as well. Dselect is very very slow --- lots of swapping. And try to install stuff, and it bombs out with not enough memory!
Now his machine has always been a bit slow, but we've always been able to use dselect before. What's changed? Too many packages? And what can be done about it? (We are used the apt method to install.) Cheers, Mark. P.S. Please cc replies directly to me as I read the list via the archives, and there is a several day delay. -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"