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From: Tim on 19 Jun 2008 14:55 I have an old laptop I am running Slack 10.2 on. There is nothing that needs to be saved. The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk a fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu and from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). My question is, if I boot from Slack 10.2 CD, can I install Slack 12.1 (files on harddrive) instead, and how would I do that? Tim
From: Jeffrey Froman on 19 Jun 2008 15:13 Tim wrote: > The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk a > fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu > and from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). If you can boot from CD, but not from DVD, you can create a Slackware-12.1 boot CD for the task. From the top level of the Slackware source tree, run the following: mkisofs -o slackware-12.1.boot.iso \ -R -J -V "Slackware-12.1 Boot CD" \ -x ./bootdisks \ -x ./extra \ -x ./slackware \ -x ./pasture \ -x ./patches \ -x ./rootdisks \ -x ./testing \ -x ./source \ -x ./zipslack \ -hide-rr-moved \ -v -d -N -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -sort isolinux/iso.sort \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \ -c isolinux/isolinux.boot \ -A "Slackware-12.1 Boot CD" . This will create a small CD image suitable for booting. The CD will not include any packages, so you'll still need the 12.1 packages in a directory on your hard drive (on a partition *other* than the one you'll be installing to.) Jeffrey
From: Kees Theunissen on 19 Jun 2008 17:47 Tim wrote: > I have an old laptop I am running Slack 10.2 on. There is nothing that needs > to be saved. The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk a > fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu and > from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). My question is, if I boot > from Slack 10.2 CD, can I install Slack 12.1 (files on harddrive) instead, > and how would I do that? If you have the 12.1 distribution available on HD you can add a section to your /etc/lilo.conf reading: image = /path_to_the_12.1_files/kernels/huge.s/bzImage initrd = /path_to_the_12.1_files/isolinux/initrd.img append = "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s" label = Install_12.1 And of course rerun lilo. This should boot you directly in the 12.1 installer. Regards, Kees. -- Kees Theunissen.
From: Tim on 20 Jun 2008 13:34 "Kees Theunissen" <theuniss(a)rijnh.nl> wrote in message news:485ad3cd$0$14344$e4fe514c(a)news.xs4all.nl... > Tim wrote: >> I have an old laptop I am running Slack 10.2 on. There is nothing that >> needs >> to be saved. The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk >> a >> fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu >> and >> from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). My question is, if I >> boot >> from Slack 10.2 CD, can I install Slack 12.1 (files on harddrive) >> instead, >> and how would I do that? > > If you have the 12.1 distribution available on HD you can add a section > to your /etc/lilo.conf reading: > > image = /path_to_the_12.1_files/kernels/huge.s/bzImage > initrd = /path_to_the_12.1_files/isolinux/initrd.img > append = "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s" > label = Install_12.1 > > And of course rerun lilo. > This should boot you directly in the 12.1 installer. > That was great. You were spot on with what I wanted to do. Many thanks. Tim
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