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Now that I know a bit of the inner workings of Slackware, and most of my work applications can be compiled/Installed in Slackware, I decided to wipe my Laptop's HDD and Install Slackware64 13;
I am posting from here now, and in the mean time upgrading to <current>
I Said MOST of my applications... the thing motif 2.2.2 still has to go, as well as OpenCASCADE, and I will have to enable multilib, and build a 32bit version of Motif 2.2.2 to be able to run Pro Engineer Wildfire 3 in my box...
And the Wings3d thingie seems a bit complicated, ( only tried once anyway... )
But The "big ones" are already built/Installed...
As soon as I finish the Upgrade I will "pimp it", once more, Thx Shylock...
Nice one Alexvader. I'm lucky in that I have a monster rig w/3 HD's, 2 with Slackware (32 & 64 -current) & one I still keep with Debian Lenny for my wife who I NEVER thought would convert from windows....but it has come to pass.
Nice one Alexvader. I'm lucky in that I have a monster rig w/3 HD's, 2 with Slackware (32 & 64 -current) & one I still keep with Debian Lenny for my wife who I NEVER thought would convert from windows....but it has come to pass.
Well my gf likes Mint so I keep the CD with me, install it everytime a new version comes out.I had installed slackware on her laptop once but she just doesn't like the text boot and wants a nice bootloader! I haven't attempted usplash or fbsplash in slack, is there any tutorial? Maybe I'll try this: http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/slackware
Hi Forum,
Now that I know a bit of the inner workings of Slackware, and most of my work applications can be compiled/Installed in Slackware, I decided to wipe my Laptop's HDD and Install Slackware64 13;
Awesome!
Slackware is rock-steady, it is my first choice for an OS.
Hmm, I got splashy to work with Slack64 after a lot of editing of config files here and there, but the progress bar doesn't work. Just the splash picture. I wonder if I should add this in my article. I'll play around with it for a few more times and see if I can come up with something.
EDIT: Got it working. My slackbox now has a nice bootloader and the progress bar works.
Hmm, I got splashy to work with Slack64 after a lot of editing of config files here and there, but the progress bar doesn't work. Just the splash picture. I wonder if I should add this in my article. I'll play around with it for a few more times and see if I can come up with something.
EDIT: Got it working. My slackbox now has a nice bootloader and the progress bar works.
can you take a digital shot or some quick video of that? That would be cool to see.
Now that I know a bit of the inner workings of Slackware, and most of my work applications can be compiled/Installed in Slackware, I decided to wipe my Laptop's HDD and Install Slackware64 13;
I am posting from here now, and in the mean time upgrading to <current>
I Said MOST of my applications... the thing motif 2.2.2 still has to go, as well as OpenCASCADE, and I will have to enable multilib, and build a 32bit version of Motif 2.2.2 to be able to run Pro Engineer Wildfire 3 in my box...
And the Wings3d thingie seems a bit complicated, ( only tried once anyway... )
But The "big ones" are already built/Installed...
As soon as I finish the Upgrade I will "pimp it", once more, Thx Shylock...
can you take a digital shot or some quick video of that? That would be cool to see.
Hmm I'll try. Anyway, does anyone have an idea which scripts are called while hibernating/resuming using pm-utils? I still couldn't implement the splashy theme during suspend/resume. The bootup looks ok, however during shutdown I can only call splashy after the killall is done in rc.6, else it will kill splashy as well. Here's a theme I created for now, will create more if people actually wants. http://www.sigmirror.com/files/48527...splashy.tar.gz
EDIT: Ok, I think i have done it but it will require some testing.
Alexvader
Apologies for going offtopic and making it a splashy-fest.
After upgrading from SL64 13 to SL64 <current>, bash asked me wether to update LILO beause of a new kernel image, I answered no, at rebooting, boot up would no go past bootscreen, it would reboot instead of preceeding with normal boot sequence,... DOHHHH
Guess I screwed up "big time"....
Reinstalled with an installer DVD of SL64 <current>...
Lesson to Learn...
Quote:
After an Upgrade, if bash asks you to upgrade/change LILO , just accept
If you don't like kernel upgrades you can just blacklist them.
slackpkg blacklist kernel should provide you with a list. I removepkg kernel-huge and keep the generic kernel as a fallback and use a custom kernel for daily work.
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