install from iso on hd???

[blingbling!!]

Hi.

I want to install slackware 10 on top of slackware 9.1, but can i do this without burning the ISO's to disk? I have a boot floppy from the slack 9.1 install, and the ISO's are saved on my hard-drive - could i just specify a different media to install from in the install program?? Would this wipe out my data - i could use parted and copy all the important stuff onto a new partition to preserve it.

Cheers!
--Robin

p.s. better? ;)

[ph34r]

Why reinstall? You should be able to just upgrade the packages...

[T2F]

Since you want to preserve your data, you will be better off upgrading. Mount the first iso as a filesystem (there are instructions around as to how to do that, but I don't remember them off hand), There is a file, upgrade.txt, on the first iso. Follow the instructions in it, and you should be good to go.
Regards,
Bill

[blingbling!!]

but I don't remember them off hand

mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/iso

My lucky day on google methinnks... it even worked! I'll have a go at upgrading - thanks for the info.

--Robin

[ph34r]

Just read "upgrade.txt" on hte root of the CD first... should be easy.