Hi everybody, i'm helping a neighbor install antiX in an old Gateway laptop (intel 1.0, 256 mb ram), the thing is, I couldn't install debian, arch, etc on it, EXCEPT antiX (good job, guys).

I updated it to Squeeze but then i couldn't get into the X system, i googled 'intel' video driver. I reinstalled antiX and this time went the Stable route, changed my sources.list and so forth.

Problem: it gives me the 'broken packages and it's not going to get installed' error when trying to install iceweasel, aptitude, wajig, etc

Is this a problem with antiX Stable or it's like this by design, or my hardware?

Thanks again,

Which version of antiX?

The squeeze repos should work ok. If not, install what you need with the default Testing repos and then chnage to squeeze.

anticapitalista wrote:Which version of antiX?

8.5

anticapitalista wrote: The squeeze repos should work ok. If not, install what you need with the default Testing repos and then chnage to squeeze.

Done that. Every time i do that, it won't let me enter the X system, thus, my move to Stable, but i can't install the packages mentioned above.

So with what you have (lenny I guess) and enabling Testing temporarily you can't install the apps you want because it breaks X (intel)?
Strange.
Can not aptitude be installed at all?

Everything is ok now.
Did a"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" with a live cd and reinstalled, works fine now. thanks

Ah, so some crud got left on the partition after installation.
Glad it's ok now.

There were probably some bad blocks on the drive, and writing zeros to the entire HDD forced the drive to remap those blocks to ones in its"backup supply."

Phil