Re: woody

[Karshi Hasanov <karshi.hasanov@utoronto.ca>]

 I wasn't able to run the Xserver of potato-2.2r2, so I had to give up using it.

I'll try agian, see if my video card can run on SVGA server.

 Thanks.







Martin Würtele wrote:

> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:21:50PM -0500, Karshi Hasanov wrote:
> >
> >
> >  I want to install 'woody' but don't know where to start. Is there the
> > ISO image
> > of woody avaible ? If not , then what other method you would recommend
> > me to use.
> >  I've tried the potato 2.2r2, but it does not support my video card
> > (Voodoo5).
>
> if you still have potato install edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and replace
> stable (or potato) with testing (or woody). then do an apt-get update
> followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade and you have woody.
>
> it seems you're new to debian so i sugest you stick to potato but add some
> unoffical sources for kernel 2.4 and xfree 4 so you grafic card will work.
> this offers you the advantage of a stable system.
>
> unofficial sources:
> # Kernel 2.4
> deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
>
> # XFree 4 (requires kernel 2.4)
> deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf402_potato/i386/
>
> yours martin
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