Upgrading Slackware

Upgrading Slackware

[Dan Murphy]

Hi folks.  I would like to upgrade from Slackware 10.1 to 10.2 but after 
looking at the site, the ibiblio.org ftp site and such, I'm confused.
I know bittoernt is all the rage these days but I know nothing about it 
and I can't seem to find a place to just download an Iso image to burn.
Barring that, I'm also thinking of looking into trying Debian again, so 
where would I look to download a speakup enabled iso of that particular 
distribution?
thanks.

Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Dan,

http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/

It is a "net install" image of 150 MB, speakup enbled, and it's all you 
need.

Chuck

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:31:40PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi folks.  I would like to upgrade from Slackware 10.1 to 10.2 but after 
> looking at the site, the ibiblio.org ftp site and such, I'm confused.
> I know bittoernt is all the rage these days but I know nothing about it 
> and I can't seem to find a place to just download an Iso image to burn.
> Barring that, I'm also thinking of looking into trying Debian again, so 
> where would I look to download a speakup enabled iso of that particular 
> distribution?
> thanks.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks.  I'll go and get that.  I recall last summer looking at that but I 
think I got a bad burn since it seemed lots of the files were missing, or 
something.
I'm going to try this again.
Thanks for the URL.


On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

>
> Hi Dan,
>
> http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/
>
> It is a "net install" image of 150 MB, speakup enbled, and it's all you
> need.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:31:40PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> Hi folks.  I would like to upgrade from Slackware 10.1 to 10.2 but after
>> looking at the site, the ibiblio.org ftp site and such, I'm confused.
>> I know bittoernt is all the rage these days but I know nothing about it
>> and I can't seem to find a place to just download an Iso image to burn.
>> Barring that, I'm also thinking of looking into trying Debian again, so
>> where would I look to download a speakup enabled iso of that particular
>> distribution?
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full)
> But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

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Just to answer the slackware part of your question, given that 10.2
came out a while ago, I doubt that you would still be able to get it
via bittorrent. As you also observed, many of the slackware mirrors
either don't have the isos, or they're slow and over-loaded if they do
have the isos. I did find a mirror in Sweden, that is fast when
accessed from the U.S., and that does have all 4 slackware isos.

ftp://mirror.pudas.net

Greg


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:51:49PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Thanks.  I'll go and get that.  I recall last summer looking at that but I 
> think I got a bad burn since it seemed lots of the files were missing, or 
> something.
> I'm going to try this again.
> Thanks for the URL.
> 
> 

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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[ace]

Net install?  Is there not a full ISO of the distro available?  Net 
installs kill dialup connections.  :)

At 07:51 PM 1/16/2006, you wrote:
>Thanks.  I'll go and get that.  I recall last summer looking at that but I
>think I got a bad burn since it seemed lots of the files were missing, or
>something.
>I'm going to try this again.
>Thanks for the URL.
>
>
>On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/
> >
> > It is a "net install" image of 150 MB, speakup enbled, and it's all you
> > need.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:31:40PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> >> Hi folks.  I would like to upgrade from Slackware 10.1 to 10.2 but after
> >> looking at the site, the ibiblio.org ftp site and such, I'm confused.
> >> I know bittoernt is all the rage these days but I know nothing about it
> >> and I can't seem to find a place to just download an Iso image to burn.
> >> Barring that, I'm also thinking of looking into trying Debian again, so
> >> where would I look to download a speakup enabled iso of that particular
> >> distribution?
> >> thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > --
> > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full)
> > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
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>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, a full iso is available, and there's more then one. Someone
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the whole distro, with sources
and all, comes out to what ... 14 cds, right? So, if you think doing a
net install over dial-up is bad, try downloading all of those.

Greg


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:15:10PM -0500, ace wrote:
> Net install?  Is there not a full ISO of the distro available?  Net 
> installs kill dialup connections.  :)
> 

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Re[2]: Upgrading Slackware

[Farhan]

Hi, feh, or you could always just buy them off the internets, isn't
it like $4.00 for a set?
I think i saw it for that price anyway, somewares back in october.

on1/17/2006Gregory Nowak said  
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Yes, a full iso is available, and there's more then one. Someone
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the whole distro, with sources
and all, comes out to what ... 14 cds, right? So, if you think doing a
net install over dial-up is bad, try downloading all of those.

Greg


On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:15:10PM -0500, ace wrote:
> Net install?  Is there not a full ISO of the distro available?  Net 
> installs kill dialup connections.  :)
> 

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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Ralph W. Reid]

I'm not sure why you want to use an ISO image for just an upgrade.  I
was able to do it by downloading the distribution directories and
following the directions in the 'UPGRADE.TXT' file which I found
there.  However, either way, you probably should use a mirror site for
Slackware--the file transfers will be far faster.  My favorite site is
at carroll.cac.psu.edu .  They have anonymous ftp and rsync at that
site, and allow downloads for a variety of Linux distributions--among
other things.

HTH, and have a _great_ day.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:31:40PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Hi folks.  I would like to upgrade from Slackware 10.1 to 10.2 but after 
> looking at the site, the ibiblio.org ftp site and such, I'm confused.
> I know bittoernt is all the rage these days but I know nothing about it 
> and I can't seem to find a place to just download an Iso image to burn.
> Barring that, I'm also thinking of looking into trying Debian again, so 
> where would I look to download a speakup enabled iso of that particular 
> distribution?
> thanks.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[ace]

Isn't there just one ISO available (or two) like with Slackware?  I 
don't need all of that damned source code, LOL

At 01:11 AM 1/17/2006, you wrote:
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>Yes, a full iso is available, and there's more then one. Someone
>correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the whole distro, with sources
>and all, comes out to what ... 14 cds, right? So, if you think doing a
>net install over dial-up is bad, try downloading all of those.
>
>Greg
>
>
>On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:15:10PM -0500, ace wrote:
> > Net install?  Is there not a full ISO of the distro available?  Net
> > installs kill dialup connections.  :)
> >
>
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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

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No. Since debian contains far more packages then slackware can ever
hope to have (unless they put a major effort into it), you can't break
debian down to just 1 or 2 disks. If memory serves, I believe that the
debian binary packages alone take up 7 isos, but I do stand to be
corrected on that.

Greg


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:08:42PM -0500, ace wrote:
> Isn't there just one ISO available (or two) like with Slackware?  I 
> don't need all of that damned source code, LOL
> 

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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[ace]

Why not just try a clean install of 10.2 to see if it fixes the 
problems?  My apologies if you have already tried this.

At 03:16 PM 1/17/2006, you wrote:
>My advice is downgrade to slackware 10.0
>I upgraded about a month ago to 10.2 and you would not beleave
>the errors I get when trying to compile and run programs
>I will be downgrading some time with in the next week
>James Dosman
>
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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[Steve Holmes]

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Out of shere laziness, I haven't upgraded to Slackware 10.2 yet but my
10.1 has been fine and what things I've compiled have all gone with
success including 2.6 kernels.  So if you're gonna downgrade, I'd just
go back to 10.1; don't bother going even further back.  I usually like
to be as current as possible so I'll take the chance and see how things
go.  I know, I found with my last upgrade, I had to pay particular
attention to run time libraries to avoid numerous shared library missing
type errors but I figure I could eliminate most of that by install the
entire L series and be done with it.  I don't fully understand thr rhyme
or reason behind some of the library package make-ups but anyhow...

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:16:12PM -0500, JAMES DOSMAN wrote:
> My advice is downgrade to slackware 10.0
> I upgraded about a month ago to 10.2 and you would not beleave
> the errors I get when trying to compile and run programs
> I will be downgrading some time with in the next week
> James Dosman
> 
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Re: Upgrading Slackware

[JAMES DOSMAN]

My advice is downgrade to slackware 10.0
I upgraded about a month ago to 10.2 and you would not beleave
the errors I get when trying to compile and run programs
I will be downgrading some time with in the next week
James Dosman