[ale] Limping laptop, locking X11

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 23:22, John Mills wrote:
> James -
> 
> Thanks for the notes.
> 
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:40, John Mills wrote:
> > > PS2:
> > >  I had it humming nicely with RH-6.*.
> > Reinstall RH 6.2. Then slowly upgrade from src.rpms a bit at a time.
> 
> Either you meant XFree86, or I missed the "&8-)"!!!
> 
> I might rebuild RH-6.2 from the CDs I made at this point, but upgrading
> the whole $%#&!!  by hand from 6.2 to 7.3 is _far_ more trouble than this
> machine justifies!

It might be a better choice to try installing 7.3 with no X stuff and
then put on the src.rpms for the X parts and build.

But then it may be easier to just build the X parts from tarballs.
Either way it's going to be a  l o n g  t i m e  w a i t i n g :)

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