On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Though I haven't been on the Slak train in a while, I will say from > experience with other distros, doing upgrades can be bumpy, and doing one > from such distant versions can result in lots of hair-pulling. > > Best results are usually from saving your personal data and installing > fresh. This prevents any issues similar to what you describe. > A good way to do this is to have /home on a separate partition. This way > you save everything you want to keep in your /home directory, and you just > reformat / (and any other partitions you have). You can backup your > configurations in /etc and other places temporarily in /home (I usually do > that with tar.gz files). > > HTH > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Michael C. Robinson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to upgrade Slackware 10.1 to Slackware 13. >> >> So far, I have determined that upgrading to Slackware 11's glibc is >> necessary. Maybe now xz will work? >> >> I'm getting an error that external command xz cannot be found even >> though I can see it under /bin and /usr/bin no problem. How do I >> get pkgtool which I have upgraded to the Slackware 13 version to >> see it? I have also upgraded tar, had to downgrade it first. I'm >> trying to follow UPGRADE.txt and I'm stuck trying to install >> findutils. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
Michael - It will take me some time but I have the ISOs going all the way back to 10.1 and I can setup a virtual machine and figure out the magic needed to get you up to 13. In my experience though you really can't jump more than one major revsion. So if you're at 10.1 go to 11.1 then 12.2 and then 13 .. should be doable. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
