12.1 is out

Smedley · 05-03-2008, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by T3slider

It's worth noting that those who upgrade instead of installing fresh should run `liloconfig` as root to get the snazzy new splash screen (or you can manually edit lilo.conf -- but you have to know what to add). I have -current running in a VM and I didn't even know about the splash screen because I just edited my lilo.conf and ran lilo manually (as if I were simply changing kernels), and just found out after hearing this. After running liloconfig it's all snazzy and such.

I'm sure it's in the ChangeLog somewhere and I just missed it -- but oh well.

During installation, after lilo setup, you are prompted to answer if you want to add it to your lilo.config

Nylex · 05-04-2008, 02:24 AM

This may be a stupid question, but where are the generic kernels? They're not in the kernels directory on the mirrors :/.

Smedley · 05-04-2008, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Nylex

This may be a stupid question, but where are the generic kernels? They're not in the kernels directory on the mirrors :/.

Their in "a"

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File: kernel-generic-2.6.24.5-i486-2.tgz  	2234 KB  	04/30/2008  	07:02:00 PM
File: kernel-generic-2.6.24.5-i486-2.tgz.asc 	1 KB 	04/30/2008 	07:02:00 PM
File: kernel-generic-2.6.24.5-i486-2.txt 	1 KB 	04/30/2008 	07:02:00 PM
File: kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz 	2354 KB 	04/30/2008 	06:19:00 PM
File: kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz.asc 	1 KB 	04/30/2008 	06:19:00 PM
File: kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.txt 	1 KB 	04/30/2008 	06:19:00 PM

Nylex · 05-04-2008, 04:06 AM

Ahh, that was the only obvious place I didn't check. Thanks!

See my sig

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brianL · 05-04-2008, 06:13 AM

Lilo has a new splash screen!!! ( Seems to me I've read that somewhere before, mmm.)

Very nice - 12.1. No problems so far (touch wood). On first post-install boot with huge-smp kernel I didn't see all those EEXIST or whatever error messages - strange?

vdemuth · 05-04-2008, 06:38 AM

Probably the most painless upgrade yet, but, and there's always a but. had to downgrade GTK+2.2 and PANGO to get firefox to work. So far, so good

Nylex · 05-04-2008, 11:54 AM

I've not had problems at all with Firefox and the supplied GTK+ and Pango packages.

I've not noticed any real problems at all so far. I do like how I can run Emacs as root without having to run "xhost +local:" now.

shadowsnipes · 05-07-2008, 04:06 AM

I'm liking 12.1 so far. I posted a HowTo on upgrading from Slackware 12.0 to 12.1 if anyone is interested.

Hopefully it will answer some questions people might have such as how to add the new LILO bootsplash.