On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>> How current is her Debian install? >>> From stable, but a little old. >> From what you're saying I think she is running oldstable (sarge) and not >> stable (etch). It could make a big difference as etch has kernel 2.6.18 as >> opposed to 2.6.8 (or the default 2.4). > > From stable as of Sep 2005.
Okay, I think a lot of your problems would be alleviated by an upgrade to etch. Again, this is all predicated on the idea that she will give you a little more time to do this stuff. head over to www.debian.org and read up (at least browse through) the upgrade notes for etch. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ especially review: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html and then edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that all references to 'sarge' are replaced with either 'etch' or 'stable'. (note, if they already read 'stable', then just review the release notes and proceed with the below). do a full upgrade: aptitude (or apt-get) update aptitude dist-upgrade there are some stuff on the release notes that you need to pay attention to and some things need to be done in a particular order, so the above is really only the last step. It will take a while, but when done, she'll be running 'etch' and probably many of the problems will simply go away. Certainly a lot of the printer issues will be resolved and the others may as well. hth. A ps. of course, back up etc.
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