Probably been asked million times already (used search function but no luck) How do you install 9.1 over 9.0 on 2nd hard drive in multi boot system with Win XP?
Thanks very much!

Like a distro upgrade?


Some people here use swaret or slapt-get. I'm currently testing out slapt-get doing # slapt-get --dist-upgrade but with 56k it will be a while before I'm able to tell you how it went. I had some problems with swaret, I had to reinstall a couple of times using it. Probally something I messed up but I don't know. It would get to where I couldn't use a xterm. There are somethings I like about it though. A nice way to get -current. I haven't seen a way in slapt-get yet. I'm sure there is. Another thing I liked was that it showed download speed, and showed you a md5 check on the spot. Something that slapt-get doesn't show, not sure if it does. But anyway I'll let someone who knows what they are talking about help you further.

I don't understand something about the question. Do you mean updating on the SAME H/D you already have 9.0 but updating to 9.1 (your windows sits on a diff drive the way I understand it), OR, do you want to upgrade to 9.1 BUT upgrade to a different drive?

If it is the former, you can use Swaret. I have used to update the whole system (right now is in Current) and all went without a hitch. Just make sure the swaret.comfgi file is exactly how you want it (repositories, dependency options, etc.) and it should go without a hitch. Since you already have a working Slackware on the drive, the Windows/multi-boot is a non-issue in this case. (AFAIK. I have never had a multi-boot update fail as long as the original Linux install was working correctly and nothing was changed in the boot options, etc.)

If it is the latter, I don't know if that is possible, sorry.

HTH (and sorry if I misunderstood the question)

Best regards...

Sorry for the confusion and delay (had to work, Darn!)
I have 2 hard drives, one with just Win XP,and the 2nd with Slack 9.0
I already downloaded Iso images for Slack 9.1 onto bootable CD's and want to install it over Slack 9.0
Do I need to run Cfdisk to delete Slack 9.0 partitions (which is ok) and continue with setup or am I going about it all wrong? I would rather totally reinstall Linux than using Swaret to upgrade as I do not have important stuff in Linux (just mess around and try to learn in Linux)
Hope that clears my question up and thanks much for any help

Another question, Do I need to do something with Lilo bootloader? I am currently in Cfdisk and its only showing hda1 ??
Can someone provide some guidance? Again thanks for your patience!

Just get swaret. You can upgrade it without reinstalling anything. It will work fine. Much easier than trying to reinstall and get everything working the same again.

I think they will let you do it from the 9.1 disk. Just point it there in the swaret.conf instead of a website.

No problem. With each OS on its own drive, is much easier.

Providing you want to keep all partitions, bootloader and its location, and drives as they are, all you do is install 9.1 updating it in the same drive with the same partition scheme as the one you currently have. If you want to change something, and since you say you have nothing important and wanted to start again, you can just tell it to reformat the same partitions, or use fdisk/cfdisk for a new partition scheme if you want different partitions. You can also use Swaret, or an app like it, but you said you did not want that.

HTH
Regards...

Hi, well, i used slapt-get to upgrade my Slackware and it went nice, downloaded around 500MB of packages. But if you want to install it over (it sounds cleaner), you can do it without any worry. I mean, if you can boot over both disks without any problem now, you won't have any kind of trouble. I think you don't even need to reinstall lilo, you can skip it.

And about cfdisk, you need to specify the disk you want to work on. If your Linux is on hdb1 (i.e.), do a "cfdisk /dev/hdb1". Otherwise it will load the first hard disk.

Again thanks much!
I have decided to reformat hdb into swap and root partition using cfdisk
hdb1 is swap with double my ram making it 1024mb and hdb2 is root.
Do you make root partition hdb2 bootable?

You could, but I personally never do. Although I don't dual-boot anymore, when I did (or if I do it for a customer) I always place the boot loader on the MBR. It was the easiest/simplest way of windoze not getting "upset" since it hates "playing well with others". (The NT loader is a lousy loader). It might not be the most efficient, but it eliminates many future headaches.

HTH
Regards...

BTW: forgot to mention that since you are going to take the time to resintall Slack from scratch, etc. you might as well do whatever you want or need to do with the XP side/drive BEFORE you do the Slack reinstall!!! Might as well save headaches from trying to fix something from XP before-hand instaeed of later.

You can scour the net from posts from people trying to fix win issues that they thought or decided after a Linux reinstall and read their "nightmare" stories. I lost track how many systems I have fixed from clients going through that. There are ways to fix them, but why go through the hassle when a little pre-planning works better and eliminate heartburn! (Mylanta works but tastes nasty! lol)

Good luck...

Regards...

The saga continues...
I have Slack 9.1 installed but mouse cursor will not move. I will try search function for solutions but if anyone wants to offer advice please feel free I have MS Intellimouse Explorer Usb optical mouse btw.
If you guys are getting sick of seeing this thread let me know and I will go away.

Glad the installation worked.

The mouse, I am personally not sure how to fix it. If I remember correctly, there was an MS Intellimouse option during the initial install of Slack, but I am not 100% sure. (I do know other distros have it). So, maybe finding the driver module, and inserting it manually will work? Don't know... shooting from the hip on that one.


If you guys are getting sick of seeing this thread let me know and I will go away. [/QUOTE]

Why? That's what forums are for; to try to give and get help.

HTH some

Best regards...

I've never used a USB mouse but you might want to use the usb kernel instead of bare.i.