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[tonyhb]

I might add that I think it is an excellent idea to have a preferences file. I have one that is taken from the previous page from this thread (without comments!).

I have installed a lot of packages and Xandros is still well intact. A number of times an install has not proceeded (usually for me saying "broken packages") which I assume is the prefs file not allowing it to happen.

--Tony

[jdebay]

Tony and all others good posts.

It will stop me from shooting my self in the foot. Maybe that is why I take a full image back of Xandros on my system left over from Windows World.

j
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The box said, "Requires Windows ME or better", So I installed Xandros...

[sphinx777]

I've been using Xandros for quite some time now, and all this was of great interest to me.
I simply added mirror sites of debian to etc/apt/sources.list and much of what I needed went
in long before any of the above threads gave all this advice.

It's easier still to simply add programs from other cd roms. A slight adjustment of etc/fstab was necessary for me in /dev/cdrom to make it work and I simply redid it the way my /etc/fstab was done in my Debian 3.0. The Xandros people are unique, and when I change a script I keep in mind that such a finely woven piece of art work has to be studied carefully as to not break the overall configurations.

Xandros is full of pleasant surprises as a consequence of their configs, and even df -h doesn't
show the same readings as my Debian 3.0 box.

By the way, I enjoyed this thread tremendously and I really like this forum overall...

[OralDeckard]

Thank you Delphi123. I had nerver heard of pinning until I opened this thread, and am glad to know I'm not the only one feeling like there aught to be a more clear explanation somewhare.

Now, about that DVD comment. I'll be glad to find and read your article on DVD readers, but can you point me in the right direction to look for a DVD writer driver. I have iOMEGA Super DVD writrers, and found one possible driver, but it was in source code only. I downloaded what should have been a linux driver from the iOMEGA website, but it didn't work.
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[Ed Richards]

You don't need a DVD writer driver. All you need to do is to install K3B. It will find your burner and load the proper drivers. Add the following repositories to Xandros Networks:


deb http://www.archlug.org/apt xandros2 archlug
deb http://www.archlug.org/apt x2 zzupp
deb http://neo.caslab.queensu.ca/packages/xandros binary/
deb http://support.xandros.com/downloads/desktop_2.0 user_contrib andrew boylinux winxperts zzupp
deb http://www.andersoe.ath.cx/~eric/debs x2 zzupp

Then do a search for K3B and install it.

I hope this helps,
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Ed Richards
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Registered Linux User #300032

[aldube]

I´m wondering if anyone ever tried converting Xandros 2 over to Debian after the Xandros 2 got a little stale after a while?

I imagine the XN and Konkerer would no longer work for starters; however, I wonder if it would be a fully functional debian system updateable with regular debian updates?

I like to experiment on my secondary system hehehe;
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[archon]

Please share your results about upgrading Xandros and hoping to see it turn into Debian. [/quote]

[Arne Anka]

[new2nix]

Wow, why can't one of you geek types make us a script that lets us configure Debian Stable sources, unstable sources, and the like as well as set up this pinning thing for us rather then ALL this...
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[Thulemanden]

That was the result of my attempt. So I had to delete /etc/apt/preferences again.

[Gaytan]

Hi,

Question; does the 'pinning' still count for Xandros 4.0 SP1?
Or is that taken care of elsewhere...?
Quite important I think...

Grtz!
Gaytan

[aldube]