Upgrade

[littledrop]

upgrading without the cd's is beyond the scope of this book. if you dont know what components and packages you're supposed to be upgrading I wouldnt bother trying to rsync patches or keep in sync with slackware-current yet.

Yes, its beyond my skills right now.



why dont you try using that guide you found , and downloading a kernel from www.kernel.org and trying to compile and run that (please keep your old working kernel in the lilo config so you wont break your system). if you are a new starter to linux or slackware as a whole, I would just use the system without patches for now and run 10.2 by itself, and just update the kernel.

I will follow that guide.
You mean we can have more than 1 kernel installed and have a option in lilo to select the kernel we want to boot.

Do you have IM?
I will do with you and when LILO step comes, I can add another entry of new kernel with you.

Thanks for all the help.

I would also like to learn the rsync.

[kern]

no problem, I dont have IM , no

but yes you can have as many kernels as you want in the lilo menu

and using rsync isnt too hard, its just a lot to take on at once.

I can provide you with a script that would mirror slackware 11.0 so you didnt need the cd's etc.

[littledrop]

no problem, I dont have IM , no
NP


and using rsync isnt too hard, its just a lot to take on at once.

I can provide you with a script that would mirror slackware 11.0 so you didnt need the cd's etc.

Please do it. Thanks


One q:
when I make changes to lilo.conf and I have lilo installed on root partition.
What's the command to reinstall LILO on root partition?

Will liloconfig do that?

[kern]

I use, as root

/sbin/lilo -v

you have to re-run it when you edit your config, never tried liloconfig

[littledrop]

do I need to specify root partition or it will simply install to the location where its is already installed?

Will you send the rsync script ?

[kern]

the root is specified in the config if you look .. /etc/lilo.conf, so no, that command I specified is all it takes.

the rsync script I will provide, but theres no real point if you're not any good at scripting or being able to edit the file for your own custom package excludes or whatever.

#!/bin/sh

# a script to check and download official slackware 10 patches from an RSYNC mirror
# kernow 5/2/05

# hmm, seems easy enough to change the mirror server if the current ones down.. good

# the url to sync with
#MIRROR="rsync://ftp.slackware.com/"
MIRROR="rsync://rsync.slackware.no/"
#MIRROR="rsync://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/"
SUFFIX="slackware/slackware-11.0/"


FILES="*.tgz"

# below are MY excludes, I don't use tcl, extra (maybe for bittorrent, any of these)
# added extra to see whats there, and maybe testing too
RSYNC_CMD="rsync -av --delete --exclude=isolinux --exclude=bootdisks --exclude=kernels  --exclude=zipslack --exclude=source --exclude=bootdisk --exclude=pasture --exclude=rootdisks --exclude=slackware/gnome  --exclude=slackware/k/ --exclude=slackware/kdei --exclude=slackware/kde --exclude=slackware/t --exclude=slackware/tcl --exclude=slackware/y"

REPOSITORY="/mnt/data/packages/slackware-11.0-stable/"


# signal to user we are getting **** etc, don't know why its gonna be a cron job anyway probably
echo -n "Synching with $MIRROR"

$RSYNC_CMD $MIRROR$SUFFIX $REPOSITORY

# tell the user we have finished, finito
echo -e "Done! - Official Patches are in $REPOSITORY\n"

it follows below though, you need to run it manually, or put it in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.daily , make it executable, change the excludes, change the place it syncs to on your hard disk. and it'll start mirroring slackware 'stable' every hour.

its only a load of patches for slackware stable at present, well actually considering 11.0 stable and slackware-current, are at exactly the same stage at present, there are no patches at all. I'd mirror stable if I were you. if at all, that is

[littledrop]

NP.

lilo -v will install where it is already installed?

[kern]

why are you asking me again? I said twice that is the proper command to use.

[littledrop]

sorry, I want to be sure before doing it.
there is no cd drive to revert the changes and don't like linux boot loader.

[littledrop]

Hi,

That guide was not complete. So I did more research.

I have a doubt.

What's the thumb rule of symbolic link in kernel upgarde?
it should point to latest version
as we have to do ln
to linux & System.map file
What if we delete the kernel files?
Do we have to ln again to other kernel(s)?
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How to backup existing kernel? I mean which folder/files to save.