upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...
Dear Debianists,
I installed Sarge 3.1 r3 on a Gateway 2000 PC (133 MHz) with a 13GB hard
drive I put in it.
I am going to upgrade to Etch RC1.
Because the machine is rather slow, I had to remove gnome and replace it
with xfce4.
I noticed when I installed Etch on my 1200MHz machine at home that both the
xorg, gnome and OpenOffice all start up much faster than they did when I had
Sarge on the same machine.
So I am now interested to try out gnome rather than xfce4 on the old PC when
I install Etch.....
But I have a few questions.
If I upgrade from Sarge to Etch, will it automatically replace Xfree4.3.0
with xorg?
If not would the command apt-get install xorg achieve the xorg installation
in full?
I have looked at the docmentation on etch testing but although it talks
about a lot of other things I couldn't find a list of commands to install
the common packages used in a desktop install.
To get around this I looked in synaptic in my Etch install on my 1200 MHz
machine. The highlighted packages I assume are the ones that hav been
installed on the machine. For xorg, there only seemed to be one installed
package, xorg itself, so I am confident that the command apt-get install
xorg is likely to be sufficient to install it completely.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
But when I looked for packages with the word gnome in them there was quite
variety.
I was thus not sure if the command apt-get install gnome or apt-get install
kdm gnome would be sufficient in Etch to install everything needed to make
gnome work.
In the case of Sarge I know that apt-get install gnome kde works for the
window manager and apt-get install x-window-system work fine.
But my worry is that Etch may contain other packages that require a somewhat
different
set of commands.
I could just wipe Sarge and install Etch from scratch to get around this
problem, but I would like to try and make the upgrade work.
Your suggestions are appreciated.
Regards,
Michael Fothergill
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