[SOLVED] Safe Tutorial to migrate from 13.1 to 13.37

MarcosPauloBR · 03-22-2011, 06:41 AM

Hi people, there is a safe tutorial to migrate from 13.1 to 13.37, or is just follow the "Tricks" from the Current folder??

Thanks!!

ponce · 03-22-2011, 07:14 AM

the "official" and safe way is to follow the two documents

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...nt/UPGRADE.TXT

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar..._AND_HINTS.TXT

shortcuts aren't so safe

ottavio · 03-22-2011, 07:32 AM

The only suggestion I can give you is when you upgrade always keep a second virtual terminal as root because usually it gest meesed up while upgrading and also disable all power saves because that gave me a problem

MarcosPauloBR · 03-22-2011, 07:57 AM

Thank you!

ottavio, how can I keep a virtual terminal?

After upgrade, we need to reboot, and how can I keep a virtual terminal as root?

Thank you for all!

bonixavier · 03-22-2011, 08:36 AM

Unblacklist aaa_elflibs in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist, then you run

Code:

slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system

Check your lilo.conf and run

Code:

/sbin/lilo

Then you reboot. That's what I did, but I upgraded to current a while back so I'm not sure if it would qualify as safe for such a large upgrade. A safe option would be to run AlienBOB's mirror-slackware-current.sh, burn the iso on a dvd and install it on top of 13.1.

MarcosPauloBR · 03-22-2011, 09:15 AM

Thanks bonixavier!

Let me understand, I try to understand the script, and, this makes a ISO with the new files of the current mirror?

=D

dugan · 03-22-2011, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcosPauloBR

how can I keep a virtual terminal?

http://www.slackbook.org/html/shell-vt.html

MarcosPauloBR · 03-22-2011, 10:55 AM

dugan, thank you for this information!

But, how can I disable all the power saves??

o//

bonixavier · 03-22-2011, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarcosPauloBR

Thanks bonixavier!

Let me understand, I try to understand the script, and, this makes a ISO with the new files of the current mirror?

=D

The first time you run it, it will download all the files from the current mirror. Then it will make an ISO of them. If you run it again later, it will only download the files that are different, but will make a full ISO. Either way, 13.37 is about to be launched (let's hope) so it might be more practical to just wait for it and make a regular ISO download.

onebuck · 03-22-2011, 01:59 PM

Hi,

When you want to use ' AlienBOB's mirror-slackware-current.sh' be sure too look at the script to learn the parameters to pass or to modify script to suit your needs. You should select a mirror that would serve you better locally.

ponce · 03-22-2011, 02:34 PM

just because it looks that you are doing a fresh install and then upgrade to current by the iso, (maybe is not that obvious but) consider that you can also do a fresh install from the current iso directly without installing 13.1 first.

MarcosPauloBR · 03-22-2011, 03:01 PM

People, are you giving to me a Slackware course?

I'm so happy there was a lot of people trying to help me!

Tonight, I feel there I will could be capable to upgrade my system!

Thanks to everybody!