updating the packages in caelinux2008

after doing a clean install on an external usb disk my caelinux2008 worked fine. so i thought to try and update the packages a bit using the synaptics manager. this downloaded a large amount of new packages but when trying to install it didn't seem to do it's job.
It came out with a double bar showing progress but just closed that and done.
i then forced the update using apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade.
It worked. all things were installed but after that the boot froze after starting cups.


i couldn't get it fixed but I did notice it now booted as PclinuxOS 2009

has any one else tried updating and got it to work?
for now I just did a new clean install so i can use it still but i think for some newer software updated packages are needed.

tom vd brink wrote:

has any one else tried updating and got it to work?

Yes I did it, no problem.
I left the upgrade working at night, because it needs a lot of time. But if you go on the PcLinuxOS forum, you will find a lot of information.
www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_s...id=26&board=52.0

May be your problem is due to the fact that the video card is unsupported by the updated distribution, so it could be an idea to start at init=3 after updating, to see what happens.

Regards.