dave wrote: >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. > 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >CCOSS mailing list >ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 >CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org > > > _______________________________________________ CCOSS mailing list ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org