Last weekend’s upgrade, as it was intended, was unsuccessful. After setting all my installation options, RedHat told me it didn’t support my hardware. At least it had the grace to inform me before it reformatted my hard drive. So I took the burst of energy, the Mountain Dew, and the gummi worms, and applied them to getting the things that were bothering me fixed in my Debian installation. I succeeded in getting X running, a bit of a chore under Debian, switched out mouses, and upgraded all my packages. I wanted Firefox, so I used Konqueror to get the installer from the website. Konqueror wasn’t that bad, though, so I was on my way to Blogger to report that fact when Konqueror crashed. So go ahead and ignore that recommendation.

I couldn’t get the Firefox installer to run, so I looked around, and found the proper way was to set apt-get’s distribution to unstable so Firefox would show up in the list of packages and use dselect to install it.

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:02:00 +0000
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