Dear David, For all the trouble you'd have to go through to upgrade Corel, I'd just grab a Knoppix CD and install that to the hard drive - it has worked very well for me. This assumes that you want to run Unstable (recommended, unless you're running a mission-critical server).
When the boot prompt comes up, you can choose your language. Hitting the F2 key will show you more options. boot: knoppix lang=us 2 and hit ENTER. The 2 option is passed so that X will not load, and you will have more memory for the installation. You'll now be at the Knoppix prompt - type "knx-hdinstall" and hit enter. The rest you should be able to figure out. Some people like MEPIS, but I haven't tried that yet. regards, Robert On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:46:09 -0800 "David G. Schlecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm seeking some opinions. Should I upgrade or just reinstall? > > I have an old Corel Linux host that is terribly out of date -- 4 years > > out of date. I've upgraded a lib or two along the road but nothing > really fit right. Of course, trying to use the GUI update tools > doesn't work since the old Corel update host is no longer serving up > packages. > > I've tried recompiling a new GCC but can't because the current one is > too far out of date. I've tried loading the GCC binaries as an rpm but > > that failed miserably with missing /bin/sh errors and more. Of course > all the new versions of the tools (like apt-get) need the new libs and > I can't compile them. > > apt-get doesn't work because it's too old and doesn't recognize the > "Cache-Limit" config and the new packages are too big to fit. > > Sounds to me like it's time to scrap the old beast and reinstall > debian. Or -- is there an easier path that I haven't tried? > > What are your opinions? > > -- > - David > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
