On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:46, Nick Rout wrote:
> I installed Mepis into a vmware virtual machine yesterday. It took an
> awfully long time compared to reported times on a "real " machine.
>
> Then I apt-get update/upgraded. Wow 342MB in 488 packages, thats like
> half the cd again!

Yes, I did that.  Seemed to be a lot updates- glad it's not just me.

> Quite a nice experience though, apart from the installer being a little
> inflexible over partitioning etc.

I'm still using it on the laptop.  Still not quite got eth0 started after 
pcmcia (that's a known Debian thing).  Sound works in native mode, but KDE 
(with its aRTs thing) doesn't recognise it.  mpg123 and XMMS are okay.  I 
lost a couple of font settings when I reconfigured X to use neomagic 
(laptop) driver, but that's back again.  I think I am slowly getting used 
to just *using* it and not really worrying about what it's doing.

Now to migrate the mini-ITX into a dedicated server...

Andy

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