On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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