I'm on a Slackware 10.1 system that currently runs a 2.6.10 kernel. I got a 2.6.27 kernel to boot by replacing the init scripts with the ones from Slackware 13. The problems encountered doing that are numerous though.
I found something called slackpkg googling online, but it doesn't appear to allow upgrading from one release of Slackware to another. I updated pkgtool to slackware 13's pkgtool, didn't seem to break anything. I then added xz only to find that xz doesn't work without glibc-2.6 which appears to be in xz compressed format! I haven't applied slackware 13's tar or gzip yet. There has to be a standard pain free way to upgrade glibc and udev to get around the bug that I'm fighting. Short of tearing into the computer so I can set up cd booting again, and there's the trouble of finding a slackware 13 cd, I only have a floppy drive to work with at boot time. I got the 2.6.27 kernel I compiled to boot, but that is about all I got it to do. The framebuffer was limited to 640x480 resolution and the network cards, a netgear fa311 and a Alvarion PC DS-11.b in a PLX adapter, didn't work. I am not allowing this computer to have Internet access, so slackpkg may not be all that useful. How can I get a base Slackware 13 install with just a floppy disk and possibly some packages on a zip disk or a cdrom? I don't have a DVD drive in the computer where booting from CD requires going into the case and turning the onboard controller back on. I use a promise 20267 instead of the Asus P5A-B's builtin parallel ata controllers. I have Slackware 13 on an ftp server, but I need a live cd or something similar to boot up in Slackware 13 and launch the setup program. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
