[ccoss] Re: woohoo! first post!
- From: Christopher Paulin <cpaulin@xxxxxxx>
- To: ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:29:25 -0500
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.
>
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.
>
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.
>
>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.
>
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.
>
>dave
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