Thanks. I was planning on doing that anyway, but you guys are a lot less "why didn't you search? The answer's *right here!*" ...but I did search and couldn't find an answer.
The guy on the forums basically just pointed me to the Debian instructions on os-works.com, which pretty much had me add os-works.com to my sources.list, uninstall what I had so far, then reinstall. Worked like a charm. I had no idea a 233MHz processor could run this well! :) On 7/15/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joseph Fruchey wrote: > > >I have an old P2-233 Dell Latitude that I wanted to install Linux on, > >so I ran Ubuntu Hoary last night. Obviously, neither KDE nor GNOME are > >going to run very well at all, so I want to install XFCE. I enabled > >the universe and multiverse repositories, and did an apt-get update, > >then apt-get install xfce, but that didn't give me an option on login > >for xfce. Then I found out I was supposed to run apt-get install > >xfce4. So I did, and it seems to run fine exept with xfce4-panel, > >which it gives an MD5sum error for. This time, however, I got an xfce > >login option, so I selected it, but it boots me right back to the > >login screen. I get a screen with an error log, but I can't copy and > >paste between login sessions. Do you think it's because I installed > >xfce before xfce4, the panel issue, or both. How do I install the > >panel having installed everything else through apt-get? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Joey > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > Don't know, having never installed XFCE but you could try the ubuntu > forums. I'm exclusively Gnome. > http://ubuntuforums.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
