upgrade 9.0 to 9.1
whenever a new slack is released, i start reinstalling my half-a-dozen machines (firewall/router, mail server, children's machines, mine...), and i'm hopefully through in time for the next release...
how could i possibly upgrade - in a 'lossless' way, ie not losing all (or worse yet: some!) configuration information from 9.0 to 9.1? faster and safer (and less annoying!) than a plain reinstall? surely not with swaret - i'd have to read all of the script in order to maybe understand what i could/should specify in the .conf file and/or on the command line. and not with an endless chain of package tool commands, of which i'd forget one or two, most likely. is there something around that's simple and safe? |
swaret's probably the best tool for the job. You only have to really make a couple of edits to the configuration file, namely to tell it to upgrade against slackware-current (which I think is the default anyway) and then it's a simple matter of typing
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swaret --update && swaret --upgrade -a |
I'm fairly new to Slackware (having come from Mandrake). Isn't there an option during the CD install to upgrade to 9.1 rather than do a fresh install?
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best thing to do is use swaret if u wanna upgrade, like mentioned above. |
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i'm exactly in the same position. oh well - reinstallation time, again, then... :-( |
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