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I had a successful install. It installed itself :) But now I don't have a clue of what i'm doing other then browse internet and use documents. How do i install updated versions? What's etch? I have a intel pentium 4 i think thats x86 family but i dunno. And its a dell computer with logitech cordless desktop. (my set point functions dont work thats okay their friggin pointless...)If i want latest distribution how do i tell? if i install i'll be using a 1 gigabyte flash; but i couldn't really understand the intructions. I have this file called boot.im.gz but thats all. umm yea i pretty much need someone who knows what this whole deal is then i can figure it out.

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Re: Just installed from goodbye-microsoft.com

Submitted by mvandorp on Wed, 2008-04-09 15:27.

Use:

aptitude update

to update your file list, and

aptitude upgrade

to do an actual upgrade.

If you have a decent apt config, your distribution will be updated to the latest version.

HOWEVER:

If you are running of a flash drive, you need do reduce the WRITE access to the drive as much as possible, otherwise your flas memory will wear out very quickly!

You need to create a ramdisk, and do all the tempfiles to memory. Same for other volatile data.

A special flashdrive distribution will do almost all in memory, and will save once when shutting down/logging off, or when manually instructed to do so.

HTH,

MArcel

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Re: Just installed from goodbye-microsoft.com

Submitted by im_not_annoying on Wed, 2008-04-09 16:10.

im not running anything off of memory. I tried what you said and i got a lot of meaningless crap.

1QYM321:~# aptitude update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [378B]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release [37.6kB]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [255kB]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources [37.6kB]
Fetched 331kB in 2s (135kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
1QYM321:~# aptitude upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libcairo2
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 385kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main libcairo2 1.2.4-4.1+etch1 [385kB]
Fetched 385kB in 1s (269kB/s)
(Reading database ... 64956 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libcairo2 1.2.4-4 (using .../libcairo2_1.2.4-4.1+etch1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libcairo2 ...
Setting up libcairo2 (1.2.4-4.1+etch1) ...

So i guess what im wondering is am i already updated?
-thanks-
Kennith

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Re: Just installed from goodbye-microsoft.com

Submitted by im_not_annoying on Wed, 2008-04-09 18:41.

i figured it out. turns out a tutorial on vi got me started.
-thanks-
Kennith

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