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05-04-2006, 09:03 AM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware64-current on Thinkpad Carbon X1
Posts: 264
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slack current iso
Anyone have a slack current iso? or should I just install 10.2 and upgrade?
thx
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05-04-2006, 09:23 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Aguascalientes, AGS. Mexico.
Distribution: Slackware 13.0 kernel 2.6.29.6
Posts: 816
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Originally Posted by slackb0t
or should I just install 10.2 and upgrade?...
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yup, that's the way to do it... however ... you can wait for Slackware 11
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05-04-2006, 09:53 AM
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05-04-2006, 03:27 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Southwestern USA
Distribution: CentOS
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It's also pretty easy to build the ISO yourself.
1. Download Slackware-current using wget -m <URL of the Slackware-current directory on the server>. The -m option will mirror the directory so you always have an up-to-date copy.
2. Just follow the instructions in the isolinux directory README to build the ISO
3. Then you can burn the ISO to a DVD with growisofs. The man page will show you how. Or on Windoze use the free version of DeepBurner.
The advantage of doing it yourself is that after the first download wget will only download newer files, so even on a slow connection it's easy to stay current.
Plus you can put as much or as little on a CD/DVD as you want.
Dennisk
Last edited by dennisk; 05-04-2006 at 03:31 PM.
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05-04-2006, 03:31 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 42
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Really, dennisk thats exactly what the guy on slackware.no does. Why not use the ready made iso ?
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05-04-2006, 06:11 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: "The South Coast of Texas"
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 564
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-current isos
Eric Hameleers (Alien Bob) has a very good script at
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tool...are-current.sh
I like this one because not only does it mirror the -current tree, but it will make isos for 2 CDs or one DVD. While Eric has done an excellent job on this script, I also appreciate being able to "tweak it just a little" for my own uses!
Regards,
Bill
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05-04-2006, 06:59 PM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: Southwestern USA
Distribution: CentOS
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rohandhruva, Last time I used slackware.no it was pretty slow and I think the ISO is only updated once a week so you'd have to wait for the security updates to be included.
Making ISOs isn't hard even without the script TSquaredF (thanks TSquaredF!) pointed us to and I like to make custom subsets -- like a miniDVD Install without KDE. And as I said, you don't have to download the full ISO each time.
Dennisk
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05-05-2006, 07:21 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Distribution: Slackware, Archlinux, CentOS
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Is anyone else having problems burning the second cd .iso to a cd? Nero tells me it is 710 mb and that only 702mb are availiable to be used.
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05-05-2006, 07:23 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Distribution: Slackware, Archlinux, CentOS
Posts: 196
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I had to overburn it. I hope it works.
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05-05-2006, 07:40 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Distribution: Slackware, Archlinux, CentOS
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Were the XAP packages not on the 1st CD? I thought they were and that just KDE and some other extra packages were on the second CD.
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05-09-2006, 12:40 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: The Woodlands, Texas
Distribution: Slackware, Archlinux, CentOS
Posts: 196
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Originally Posted by rohandhruva
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see you go here for may 8 .iso and the second cd is like 726mb and the first cd is like 657mb. They should include some stuff from the 2nd cd on the first. I couldn't get it to overburn.
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