[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!

dave wrote:

>Christopher Paulin wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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Pete Santoro likes XFce, http://www.xfce.org/. I use KDE.

>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.
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I see. So you can't just pick up any source package and install it with 
the program. The people at Innovation Software Group 
(http://www.innovationsw.com/) where the SCOSUG (http://www.scosug.org) 
meetings are held create their own source rpms. Bill Rivet, who wasn't 
at the last meeting, suggested changing the make file to put in some 
uninstall code into it.

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>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.
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I think I have mysql files also, which aren't in /etc. I don't have a 
separate /home partition. That limits the space in home. I could do it 
that way or copy my data to my desktop during the upgrade. I'm not 
working on that right now, so I'll see what happens when I do.

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>dave
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