Startup message: "Not automatically fixing this"

2002-12-12 Thread David Luff
On startup of a fairly new installation (Libranet 2.0 / 2.4.18 kernal / ReiserFS) onto a brand-new harddrive I have started getting strange numbers appearing during boot up that I haven't seen before (either on previous installations or the first few boots of this one), with the line "Not automatic

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 11:01 PM Colin Watson wrote: >> My question is which package to specify to basically install XFree86 and >> its dependencies? > >x-window-system is there for that purpose. If you just want the bare >bones so that you can replace the components of x-window-system with >alternatives, y

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-12 Thread David Luff
On 11/12/02 at 9:17 PM Rob Weir wrote: >On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other >> than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, >> are there any other preparations that I should make bef