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On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:33, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/7 Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I've just dug out my mpc (having shelved it after I found it wouldnt boot > > on power restore!) and have a couple of questions: > > 1) Does it upgrade to 8.04 lts ok? > > I have run 8.04 and 8.10 on mine. I've just tried to upgrade to 8.04LTS and its gone pear shaped*. I now have a package gsfonts that I cant remove or reinstall and any dpkg command says it cant do anything because that package is so badly corrupted - any ideas how to get rid of it/replace it? * my last three upgrades have all gone pear shaped on the ubuntu family - anyone else have this problem? > > > 2) how easy is it to upgrade memory on it > > The max is 512MB. It uses SODIMM - laptop style memory. > > > 2a) should I make a swap sector? > > Any reason why you wouldn't? I was wondering why they didnt set one up at the start! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html