I just found a box in my basement that I haven't touched in many years. I
checked sources.list, and it was built when woody was stable and sarge was
testing. The box was running sid. So I thought it would be an interesting
experiment to see what is involved to get it to a modern sid, or if it is
even possible. The box is a PII/667. 192mb ram, 6gb drive.
So far, I have run into the following problems:
1. I had to take debian non-free out of the sources.list (I had forgotten
all about that).
2. It is having a problem installing ncurses-base. ("package uses Breaks, no
supported in this dpkg")
I know it will probably break at some point, but I doubt I will ever have
need to reuse this box, and the data is way stale after so many years...I
thought it would be an interesting diversion.
--b
