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Nice Review of Slackware 10.2;

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/1538202

reclusive monkey wrote:

> Nice Review of Slackware 10.2;
>
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/1538202

Two questions:

1. How far out of date is the printed version versus the html/pdf/ps
versions?

2. I don't find upgrade in the TOC. Is there a definitive guide on how to go
from e.g., 10.1 to 10.2 without using a second partition? My attempts at
upgrading a single partition in place have often ended in disaster.

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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters

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In alt.os.linux.slackware, John Culleton dared to utter,
> 1. How far out of date is the printed version versus the html/pdf/ps
> versions?

0 years, 0 months, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, 0 versions.

Around release time for Slackware-10.2, Pat "blessed" the revised book
as an official Slackware project. Later, I worked with the excellent
people that work with store.slackware.com and they are now publishing a
dead trees version of the book as "Slackware Linux Essentials - Second
Edition". So, now that it's the official documentation, they at long
last updated the print version available for sale.

> 2. I don't find upgrade in the TOC. Is there a definitive guide on how to go
> from e.g., 10.1 to 10.2 without using a second partition? My attempts at
> upgrading a single partition in place have often ended in disaster.

There isn't any single definitive guide. Each version of Slackware
comes with a file called UPGRADE.TXT. This is the definitive guide for
upgrading to that version, but could change between versions.
Typically upgrading requires nothing more than:

0) cd /path/to/slackware-version/slackware
1) upgradepkg --install-new a/sed*.tgz
2) upgradepkg --install-new a/pkgtool*.tgz
3) upgradepkg */*.tgz
4) fix your bootloader
5) reboot

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5
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+Alan Hicks+ wrote:
een versions.
> Typically upgrading requires nothing more than:
>
> 0) cd /path/to/slackware-version/slackware
> 1) upgradepkg --install-new a/sed*.tgz
> 2) upgradepkg --install-new a/pkgtool*.tgz
> 3) upgradepkg */*.tgz
> 4) fix your bootloader
> 5) reboot

issue " telinit 1 " before doing the above.
upgrading all in other runlevels might give troubles.

cashmir

reclusive monkey wrote:

> Nice Review of Slackware 10.2;
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/1538202

Odd ... the author states:

In 10.1, the installer slowed to a crawl if asked to place the OS
on one of several partitions that it could see. Scanning for the
installation CD seemed to take forever, and individual packages were
taking minutes to install instead of seconds. When I installed 10.1
with only the target and swap partitions known to the installer,
it would fly, but not with a second and third partition.

My systems have never (still running Slackware-3.1 on one system, up to
10.1 on a number of others, with several somewhere between those) had
only two partitions (one "target" and one swap). My typical systems these
days (I have been using what has become for me a "standard" layout since
around 9.0 was new) have nine partitions, and I've not once experienced
the above. Hardware issues perhaps?

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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That struck me as a little odd too. If anything, when I started with
Slack (8.1) I had more partitions that I needed (/, /boot, /home, /var,
/opt, /usr, /usr/local). I don't think I've ever installed it on a HD
with less than four partitions (/, /home, /usr/local and swp) and the
install has done nothing but fly every time. On my desktop machine now
it takes around 15 mins from putting the CD in to rebooting. OK, I do
have a Barracuda 7200.8 now, but still it seems odd he had this trouble.

* reclusive monkey <reclusive.monkey@gmail.com> writes:

> That struck me as a little odd too.

What struck you as odd?

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