scarecrow Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 I've just installed it under VMWare using the minimal businesscard CD- just the core debs with no GUI. Everything worked fine. I then added LXDE, which brought with it some oddities (e.g. GDM and Iceweasel), but it's really working great. Thumbs up from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Was it easy / straightforward? I thought I'd have a quick look at the upgrade instructions but there was so much in there and so much which I didn't understand, I haven't upgraded my Etch yet. I was thinking it might be easier / less painful to just do a minimal install from CD (which was how I installed etch) rather than try to upgrade... :unsure: aptitude update aptitude upgrade (get etch 100% updated) edit /etc/apt/sources.list (find and replace etch with lenny) aptitude update aptitude install aptitude dpkg (get the new lenny versions after editing sources.list) aptitude full-upgrade done (after a while :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted March 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 I haven't got round to upgrading my Etch installation yet, but I've had some chance to play with the live version of Lenny. You can read my review of it here if you're interested! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 I've had problems with a HP DL server that meant I had no networking with Debian 5 (lenny) - neither of the two broadcomm tg3 ports worked or the 2 x dual port Intel cards installed in it. Ubuntu Server worked fine, so can only assume something with Debian and the 2.6.26 kernel is to blame. Gentoo 2008.0 with a 2.6.24 kernel worked fine (install cd) as well as 2.6.27 kernel under Ubuntu server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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