slack current question
 

This is going to sound like a complete noob question. I have only used packages out of slack current.

Is slack current the complete set or is it just the new packages?

Thanks
Zarnce

slack-current is a complete release. AFAIK, it is the most up to date tree, and becomes the home for prereleases and what-not

Is Slack-current available as an iso-image for download ? Where ?

Slack-Current ISO
 

http://zuul.slackware.biz/current-is...kware-current/

Last update seems to be 2 of august...

Thanks for the link :)

Btw, just see on the size of the full , noGnome - isos:

Full: slackware.iso 02-Aug-2003 01:30 1.0G
noGnome: slackware.iso 02-Aug-2003 01:28 804M
noKde: slackware.iso 02-Aug-2003 01:24 609M

AnyOne know how to install directly from the ISO-Image ?
Am not remebered, looked like it is possible to be mounted and accessed like partition, isn't it ? How ?

Is such slackware-current-ISO actually self made by someOne or is that made of slackware-companion ? I meant, is there any possible mirror on the internet ?

I usually download with getright segmented download, it ll be faster if I can adjust some segments to point to other source ..

You can then access the files in the ISO :)

Cheers!

then how do you install everything, do have to do installpkg for every package ?

read the UPGRADE.TXT file

omg, just tell me. i dont have the iso.

when you mount the iso you would be able to read this for yourself but here it is

0. Put your machine in single-user mode:
telinit 1


1. Upgrade your glibc shared libraries. This is important, or things
will go haywire during the first part of the upgrade:

upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz


2. Upgrade your package utilities:

upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz


3. Upgrade everything else (and install new packages):

upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/*/*.tgz


4. Make sure your system will boot. If you use LILO, make sure the
paths in /etc/lilo.conf point to a valid kernel and then type 'lilo'
to reinstall LILO. If you use a bootdisk, you'll need to use
makebootdisk to make a new bootdisk using the kernel in /boot.


5. Fix your config files. Some of the config files in /etc are going to
need your attention. You'll find the new incoming config files on
your system with the ".new" extension. You may need to fill these in
with information from your old config files and then move them over.


6. Return to multi-user mode:
telinit 3


Finally, you might want to go into /var/log/packages, and take a look at
the package list:

god-lee, thank you.

How do you burn a 1.0GB ISO?

i dont think you burn it, but boot into slack 9 or whatever, and mount the image.

I do have another partition free, about 4 GB enough for a slack-current (install everything should only be 2GB).
So this is how I install a fresh slackware-current without to burn a CD:

The answer is slackware is confortable to install from harddisk/partition, as long as u have the subdir slackware (containing a ap d e f k kde kdei l n t tcl x xap y) from the install-CD somewhere on the harddisk.

I've downloaded from within w2k on the ntfs partition, this partition is mounted on /mnt/nt1, as stated above further:
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/nt1/slackware.iso /mnt/iso
caused an IOCTL error, I just copied that iso into my old slack9 / partition, n mounted it with "mount -o loop -t iso9660 /slackware.iso /mnt/iso". Then I can copy the /mnt/iso/slackware to /

Create the bare.i bootdisk, n other 2 rootdisks (install.1,install.2), boot with the bare.i (dun need any parameter by me), insert rotdisks by prompt ..

mount that old-slack9 partition somewhere on the tree e.g. /z (but not into /mnt), remember the directory containing (a, ap, d, e, f, k ..), in the case must be in /z/slackware.

Activate my swapspace: # swapon /dev/hda6 (can be done within setup),
then run setup, select "select from a premounted directory, enter /z/slackware", then it is like when installing from a CDROM, only faster (reading from harddsik is faster than from CD).

At the end by installing a boot kernel, I can only choose install kernel from bootdisk (have to enter the bare.i diskett again). I had the option to choose kernels from the CDROM, but the CDROM was not mounted, after sucessed installation, I tried to mount that slackware.iso from the oldslack partition somewhere on the tree of the running installation-slack, it worked. There it must be possible also to mount that slackware.iso using mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom. That is the place where a real install-CD is mounted. Then I ll have the option to choose options the 2.4.21-kernels from the CDROM (mounted iso), I bet ..

So far am currently on that slack-current noGnome 8.05GB, look nice with xfce .. Actually an image of noGnome+noKde in http://zuul.slackware.biz/.. would be not that bad next time ..


After first login, cd /etc/rc.d
chmod 644 rc.nfsd, rc.sendmail, rc.news, rc.sshd prevent the kernel from loading not neccessary daemonds, should save some RAM ..

Reboot, startx then am here .. :)

i think i will just use swaret for now lol

Any one has a workable ~/.xinitrc for mwm ?

I found no xinitrc.mwm in /etc/X11/xinit, so I modified xinitrc.twm to be xinitrc.mwm, but it did not work properly, I meant mouse button actions on screen/windows had no reaction at all ( it should pull down a menu like stated in .mwmrc, copied from /etc/X11/mwm/system.mwmrc ), it did nothing .., only startet the xterms ..

Btw, twm worked fine, windowMaker even better, xfce sux .y.

My ~/.xinitrc looked like this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

xmodmap /usr/X11R6/lib/mwm/alt.map

# start some nice programs
#twm&
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login


echo "starting mwm@$HOST ...."
/usr/X11R6/bin/mwm&

echo "Start some nice programs ..."
xterm -ls -sl 1000 -g 78x54-0+0 -sb -bg white -fg darkgreen &
xterm -ls -sl 1000 -g 78x54+0+0 -rightbar -bg white -fg darkgreen &
exec xterm -C -cu -g 88x5-0-0 -name login

Sorry, another question

actually repeated question posted above, Is there any mirror site for "slackware-current 9.1 ISO" dated from 5-SEP-2003, not the directory tree, beside zuul.slackware.biz ?

After got an partition crash, I think gonna stream an new iso into .., therefore I've been downloading the iso (1gb) over 12 hours, got only 18% of it .. :(

you know you can easily build you own iso. I don't think they usually put out prebuilt isos until after the make a stable release.

Yes they already put out that ISO dated 05-SEP-2003.

Actually I don't want to suck it down, it is too time consuming, I estimated it could take 2days at least maybe 3 or 4 days. Now I got 23% after 18 hours.

Wut u meant with make own ISO ? Wut should I download in that case ? I meant it is too much work to download those directory trees.. Wut I really need is only the the bare.i+2rootDisk+/slackwareTree.

I d/l the ISO it is because it is simpler (1 file). I'd prefer install swared n updated online than making own iso if my system partition didn't get miss state .. I usually have many symbolic link among each other of the distros, sharing the many of the root files among them .. I prefer to make a clean install ..

So if I know another mirror of the new iso of zuul.slackware.com then I can segments the download now, it will be surely be faster ..

You would download what you would like on your install cd I did that for 9.0 before they released an iso. It wasn't too hard in my opinion but then opinions vary. In the post above you will find the iso's you wanted.

Thanks for the link, maybe some other can d/l from there. The ISOs is splitted into 2 parts:

ftp://ftp.biochem.uthscsa.edu/pub/li...052003-CD1.iso

and

ftp://ftp.biochem.uthscsa.edu/pub/li...052003-CD2.iso

The ISO I'm downloading is an one peace ISO of 1.019.104 KB from :
http://zuul.slackware.biz/current-is.../slackware.iso

So I can not segment the download, bcoz it is easily different images (different image-name and size, I dun no how to segment it with getright).

But thank any way for the link posting, I'd d/l from there if I'd not already got 292 MBs from 1020MB (30% after 24 hours). I believe it must be faster to d/l from other site than from slackwareDotBiz, bcoz many ppl is maybe downloading from there parallely ..