On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:10 AM, someone <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
As far as I know you're going to need an initrd in order to use your network peripherals in a hacked together 13 install. Why not just build the kernel from source from kernel.org ? You can PXE boot newer version of Slack if the NIC supports it. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
