Hello again <smile like child getting caught being naughty> The boy sure has got himself into trouble now !!!
Having learned heaps by installing bo and then scattering files and other odds and sods at random around my h/d I decided to start again - but this time with hamm, having read on many occasions how stable hamm is. Great set-up in hamm - the basic installation went like a dream Being a home user at the moment I selected the home user download option ( ~404Mb ), chose ftp as the install method, upgraded packages, bypassed selection (as suggested) and went straight to install. As i'm on a time-limited ISP the download was interrupted several time but seemed to complete OK ( in about 8 hours @ 33,3K ) The configuration phase failed completely - apparently most of the applications are seeking libg++.so.27 & libc5 and bitching about not finding them. Also had dependancy and conflict problems - probably caused by an earlier package failing to install ??? I also got complaints about the device being full - on an 800Mb partition am I running out of room ??? On the assumption that I messed something up - 8 hours later I had download the whole lot again - and got the same problem (and, in the middle of the night, didn't think to write down every one of the million+ errors - even dselect gave up on me and sulked !) It seems almost as if the default selection for dselect by choosing the home user option is to load everything ! On the second installation, noting the problems, I chose 'select' from the dselect menu, didn't do anything and went back to the menu - no dependancy or conflict problems were pointed out. 1. <truly stupid question deleted> 2. Do i need to manually select packages to get libg++ and libc5? 3. Maybe I should stick to bo (but, if hamm is going stable at "any minute now" would I gain anything ? would I lose much ?) 4. There seems to be as many problems using autoup (gauging by this list) so I have discounted installing bo for the sole purpose of upgrading to hamm Thank you all for your help. Ivan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null