[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!


Christopher Paulin wrote:

> Peter Santoro is using Slackware as his distribution. He created tag 
> files to automate the package selection during the installs because he 
> was installing to more than one machine because he's converting his 
> household to all Linux from Windows. He is using an open source program 
> called SWareT, http://www.swaret.org/index.php. " swaret is a script to 
> help keep your Slackware System up-to-date." It works like apt-get in 
> Debian. He likes the fact that Slackware doesn't change the 
> configuration style from version to version. I am using an older version 
> of Slackware, 8.0 on my laptop. What I would like to do is to save all 
> my data, including configuration files, and then remove that version and 
> install a newer version. I would like to see if I can create a bootable 
> CD from files I've downloaded. In summary, I want to start fresh and 
> know about what I changed to configure my system. On my desktop, I'm now 
> using SuSE, which is what I'm using now. I've downloaded a DVD player, 
> which doesn't work as well as the Windows player that came with the DVD 
> rewriter, but it works. I tried installing the Java interpretter for 
> Mozilla on SuSE but was discouraged. So I'm starting to learn ways to 
> install software that doesn't come on the installation CDs. I haven't 
> upgraded anything I can remember.

I installed Slackware 9.1 not too long ago. I started with a basic 
install, then installed Dropline Gnome (http://www.dropline.net/gnome/) 
on top of that. It was pretty slick. It even includes an applet to check 
for and install Gnome updates (but not Slackware). I also installed 
swaret, which worked similarly enough to apt on Debian. The one thing I 
did notice, the package selection didn't seem to compare to that of 
Debian. Now, I wouldn't call this comparison totally fair, since 
Debian's apt has been around for awhile, which accounts for the huge 
number of packages available (the swaret changelog states that an 
upcoming version will support installing packages from 
slackwarepackages.net). Anyway, my point is I was comparing it to what I 
currently use, and the difference in number of packages jumped right out 
at me.

Chris, do you have a separate /home partition? I've done reinstalls 
where I've just grabbed all of /etc (for configs) and reinstalled, being 
careful to NOT touch the /home partition. Once installed, I just 
untarred my /etc over the new one and all was well.

dave


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