On Saturday 03 November 2001 12:24, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a basic Debian Woody installation on a Pentium III 550 with 196 > megs of ram. I'd like to install the X windowing system. I've looked over > the packages available with names like x-window-system and > x-window-system-core, and xfree86-common and I have no idea where to start. > None of it seems to match the documentation from www.xfree86.org and I > haven't found Debian specific installation/configuration instructions. > > Would someone either post a summary of the steps involved or point me to a > HOW-TO that shows how to install this the debian way? >
You might want to give 'tasksel' a try... if you go to the very bottom of the list it gives you the option to install the entire X window system. I believe that's what I used to install it on a basic Woody system like yours (I installed a basic potato and then upgraded that to Woody). -- David P. James Third Year Economics Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario http://members.home.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
