remove all X libs and apps?

[Carl Karsten]

Matt Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm converting an old laptop from an outdated debian-etch over to
> ubuntu-feisty -- I want to use the 2.6.19 kernel.  It's likely to be
> ugly, but I remember that it was a bit difficult to get the installer to
> work on this machine, so my plan is to remove all x-based apps and
> unnecessary libs and then do a crossgrade.  I was just wondering whether
> there's some lib files I can remove to ensure that all x-based packages
> are also removed.  any suggestions?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
> 
> 

This will load/run the edgy netboot installer kernel.  assuming it detects your 
nic ok, it will just go.

wget
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/linux
wget
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/initrd.gz
sudo apt-get install kexec-tools
sudo kexec --load linux --initrd=initrd.gz
sudo kexec --exec

If you don't have kexec:
sudo apt-get install kexec-tools


kexec has a -reset-vga switch that you may need to use if you run it inside of 
X.  I just gdm stop (I figured that out before I saw the -vga switch)

I may add this trick to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/LocalNet
Carl K