[slackintosh-users] Re: Slackintosh 11.0 has been released

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 16:10:15 +0200
Adrian Ulrich <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > Checked this, but did not see any info on if upgrading will effect
> > yaboot?  Should I just install over the top of the current 10.2?
> 
> Upgrading works exactly the same as it does on Slackware:
>  http://slackware.at/data/slackware-11.0/UPGRADE.TXT
> 
> slapt-get with --dist-upgrade might also work.
> 
> Well.. about yaboot: The bootloader itself is always installed inside
> the 800kb bootstrap partition. Upgrading or even removing the yaboot
> package does *not* affect the bootloader in any way: Simply upgrade
> your 10.2 to 11.0 and run 'ybin' after you are done to install
> the new yaboot binary inside the bootstrap partition.
> (But this is optional because the 'old' yaboot binary would
>  also work just fine .. )
> 
> > I'm thinking of installing on
> > my /dev/hda since /dev/hdb
> 
> /dev/hdb should work just fine. The setups yaboot-installer had some
> hardcoded paths on 10.2 but this has been fixed in 11.0
> 

Outstanding...thanks Adrian.

James

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