Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:48:41AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010 22:11:00 Rob Owens wrote: My understanding is that live-helper must build the kernel so that certain modules necessary to the live system get included. I confess that I don't completely

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 08:17:57PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Rob Owens wrote: I use a Debian-Live USB and I like to run Lenny because of the infrequent updates. But one of my laptops requires the Squeeze kernel in order for wifi to work. I've been told by the Debian-Live developer that I

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 20:35:29 Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome,

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 22:11:00 Rob Owens wrote: My understanding is that live-helper must build the kernel so that certain modules necessary to the live system get included. I confess that I don't completely understand that answer, but it's what I was told by the developer. You should

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010 20:35:29 Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from

installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Owens
If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome, LXDE, or Fluxbox, most likely). Reason: I use a

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:35:29 pm Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome,

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:35:29 pm Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from the Lenny repos? (Gnome,

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:02:18PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010 05:35:29 pm Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Rob Owens wrote: I use a Debian-Live USB and I like to run Lenny because of the infrequent updates. But one of my laptops requires the Squeeze kernel in order for wifi to work. I've been told by the Debian-Live developer that I cannot install alternate kernels on my live system (otherwise I'd