Hi, Today, I managed to get a really crap pile of hardware (two halves of ancient 486s and one half of an ancient P90) to perform and boot. I installed potato from CD, got the network up and running, and dist-upgraded. It went (almost) flawlessly. Following the advice I have seen around, I upgraded apt and dpkg first. Then dist-upgraded. The only flaws that I could see at all was the lack of debconf, which I had to "apt-get install debconf" afterwards. Also apt-utils was not automagically pulled in, and I had to explicitly install it later. I personally think this was so damn close to flawless that I am muchly impressed, especially as a couple of big RedHat advocates were standing watching me do it :) It should be noted that this was a *tiny* system though, literally just base. After the upgrade apache, mysql and various php stuff went in, and even at that the install only just tops 100M. Presumably apt-utils did not get installed because the only thing that appears to depend on it is debian-cd (which was not installed). Debconf seems to rely pretty heavily on it to preconfigure packages though (or at least you get minor complaints about it not being installed), which begs the question why doesn't it list a Depends? It doesn't even seem to have it as a Recommends or a Suggests. Cheers, Stephen
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