Installed Slackware by flashing one of the CD iso's to a USB. Turns out that CD was part 1 of 6. So how do I install from the dvd iso?
My current understanding is that on the Slackware torrents page:
http://www.slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php there are 6 CD iso's that work by installing them disc by disc. (the reason I torrent is because direct downloads rarely work for me). I don't know how one would install them with a USB drive though, would you flash one iso to a USB, liveboot/install from usb, then rinse and repeat with the other 5 iso's? Because when I installed the first disc (I haven't installed any other discs), I was never prompted to enter another. So perhaps I just misunderstand how the CD installation works? (I get that they're supposed to be burnt to 6 individual CD's, I'm just saying I can't really think of how it'd work by flashing them to a USB instead). Now, my installation went fine apart from the fact that a lot of random, seemingly important commands are not recognized at all, preventing me from further setting up my install. I assume this is because I only used the first of the 6 CD's so those commands don't even exist on my system. Anyway, I was told that I should've used the DVD iso instead as it's just one thing, not 6. (when I installed the first CD, I didn't know it was part 1 of 6) and that if I flash the DVD iso, I can just install any missing packages from the mounted USB drive without having to completely start over. So, my questions are: on the slackware torrents page, it lists 2 DVD torrents. Quote:
And someone told me that the command I should use is: Code:
find a/ ap/ d/ e/ f/ k/ kde/ l/ n/ t/ tcl/ x/ xap/ xfce/ y/ -name *.t?z -exec upgradepkg --install-new {} + (The USB drive was mounted properly and all of the packages there were present within the Slackware folder) So any idea what I did wrong or what I should do to get everything I need sorted out? (btw in the command I posted, is Quote:
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Hi 700, welcome to LQ!
Please read the docs available at the links below. https://www.slackwiki.com/Install_Sl...SB_Flash_Drive http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install |
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The first one is the main installer and the next 3 are "additional packages", like the DE (Desktop Environment), etc. The final 2 are the sources plus the book, etc. - never needed for install. Quote:
The 32-bit install DVD, contains everything from the first 4 CD's; The 64-bit one (all the same packages, but then compiled in 64-bits) The source DVD, contains the 5th and 6th CD and some extra's (like the 64-bit slackbuilds), as I said, never needed for install, only when you want to REcompile (maybe with patches) one of the packages or when you want to read the book. So for a 32-bit system you only need the first: slackware-14.2-install-dvd.iso (and for a 64-bit one slackware64-14.2-install-dvd.iso) Quote:
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Furthermore the characters * and ? should be escaped (by prefixing them with a \) as they are special to the shell. Like: "-name \*.t\?z" Quote:
You must have installed "pkgtools" (and a few others) for the rest of the find commandline to work, because it tries to INSTALL all of the packages found. |
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As a follow up question, why are those backslashes required in the first place? And what're the curly braces and the plus sign for near the end? |
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The \ tells the shell: keep OFF (it will remove the \'s but pass * and ? ON to find to handle those itself) b) the {} is a placeholder for "the filename found" and the + says: pass multiple filenames at once. They are part of the syntax of the (extended) -exec option for find Quote:
PS: although man pages are often hard to read for a beginner, they do give all of those options and parameters. Even experts use them often to remember how some of those seldom used options did work. The "xargs" command was the way to do this before find was extended with the "+" variant of the -exec action. |
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