Tyler MacDonald <ty...@macdonald.name> writes: > I went through this exact same process awhile ago when I went from squeeze > to etch... >
Thanks for nice help... very usefull. Before getting into whats happening.. I'm currently and have been a bit confused about debian naming/versioning setup. I thought etch was quite a bit older than squeeze. I thought squeeze was newer than `lenny'.. have I gotten all backwards? Getting into the frey with the broken pkgs.. I see apt wanting to install a whole herd of video drivers. The following partially installed packages will be configured: libcompress-zlib-perl libice-dev libsm-dev libxaw7-dev libxmu-dev libxt-dev perl-doc perl-modules xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo 7 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 705 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/6397kB of archives. After unpacking 1487kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Is there someway to tell the OS what card is installed? Its vmware so its a svga card. Would I even need all that guff? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tytcolwo....@newsguy.com
