On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Kissell wrote: > > One of my machines still runs a 2.0.39 kernel and libc5. And 4.2.0 is > > quite happy on it. No 3D of course, but on this system I don't mind.
> > You only need to upgrade XFree86, preferably to 4.2.0. However, getting > > that done on an older system might be a bit of chore, given we only > > provide binaries for glibc 2.2. So, you should either upgrade the whole > > shebang, as Lionel suggests, or build from XFree86 source. > I purchased Slackware 7 and 8. Most of these require you to install > LILO to boot from. The current Linux OS I have boots from a floppy and > I thought I would stay with that. Thats why I was keeping the older > version around. With the info on XFree86 web site can I do a source > build? What is required to do this? Is there a work around for > putting 7 and 8 on without LILO. In other words can I still use a boot > floppy? Right now my disk is relatively clean. I just reloaded the old > version of Slackware Linux and could reinstall if I had to. It's easy enough to uninstall LILO later, but you should first build a non-modular kernel on a floppy, and verify that you can boot from it. I suspect you don't want to clobber another boot manager (System Commander, or the like). But, when LILO is installed, make a copy of the previous MBR, and you can tell it to restore the old one later, which will also restore your previous boot setup. As for XFree86 source, download the tarballs. Unpacking them will create an xc/ directory. Just `make World` and `make install install.man install.sdk` in that directory. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
