. . . with a few glitches. Today I finally got back to playing with Linux. A while back, I had made an image of my Squeeze install. It booted fine on the original hardware. But when I tried to put it on another machine, I got the dreaded blinking cursor - original install had nVidia driver and dkms kernel. So I F1'd, nano'd xorg.conf, nuked it, ran startx and it booted. A miracle that I could actually remember all this after so many months.
Created space with gparted and labeled it. Since this was an experiment, I chose the first option to install on one partition. Didn't take too long and it booted. My customized grub screen even stayed intact. The fstab the the installer created was minimal - needed a rework including nuking the swapfile. The label that I assigned somehow got lost in the process. IIRC one of the other install options would have kept it intact.
Only unsolved issue so far is that it won't suspend properly. Well, it suspends but power keeps running. Have to hit the big button to power down. I'm gonna try noapic as a kernel option next time I'm over there. Any thoughts on that?
On a different topic . . . I tried the wheezy stable live disk and the VLC included on it plays my video isos properly. I'm gong to install it to see if I can get the whole constellation of media apps working since I have never gotten everything to work properly on refracta. If that fails, I may give jessie a whirl. Sad that I might not be able to use refracta as my base setup.