acid45
07-21-2007, 12:33 AM
Hey everyone,
I had some kernel issues in the kernel section and I resolved it. Now I have other troubles. I could just do a reinstall, but that would be cheating.
I tried upgrading to slackware 12, but not everything worked properly. The first thing I think I may have done wrong, was once I noticed that for some reason the slackware12 packages I downloaded had many missing, I tried using SwareT to do the upgrade ( form 11 to 12 ).
I removed all the excludes except for the kernel. I probably could have done it if I had added the packages I had to upgrade first as a prerequisite it might have worked, but I'm guessing it updated everything and half way through it upgraded something that was required for SwareT to function proplery and failed to install everything.
So! I decided to go back to 11 with a 2.6.18 kernel and try it again. But stupid me, not thinking too bright, went through the list from step 1 to step 13 and not starting at step 13 to 1. So, the first thing I downgraded was glibc-solibs 2.4 from 2.5, which was required by most of the softwareon the 12 upgrade. Nothing would work from then on, thankfully, I had a spare hard drive laying around with slackware 10.2 installed.
Now that you have what I did wrong, this is what I think I need to do.
I need to upgrade this installation to 11 to the point where it can be upgraded to 12, or even upgrade it to 12. Since I had so many problems gettin got 12, I think if I just install a 2.6.18 kernel and upgrade it to 11 and get this installation ready for the upgrade, I can upgrade the installation on the other disk, mounted as something like /slackware12.
The only thing I will have to look into is what I will have to do to do an upgrade on another mout point instead of the root partition. It will probably have something to do with the pkgtools commands IE installpkg/upgradepkg.
One main reason I don't want to reinstall is because I have lots of files that I would like to not have to get again, I spent about a week setting it up since I got slackware installed.
I will be looking at man pages and google for the next little while. If I still can't find an answer I will check back here. Sometimes I find writing up a post helps me think something through, which is how I came up with the installpkg upgradepkg man pages idea.
I had some kernel issues in the kernel section and I resolved it. Now I have other troubles. I could just do a reinstall, but that would be cheating.
I tried upgrading to slackware 12, but not everything worked properly. The first thing I think I may have done wrong, was once I noticed that for some reason the slackware12 packages I downloaded had many missing, I tried using SwareT to do the upgrade ( form 11 to 12 ).
I removed all the excludes except for the kernel. I probably could have done it if I had added the packages I had to upgrade first as a prerequisite it might have worked, but I'm guessing it updated everything and half way through it upgraded something that was required for SwareT to function proplery and failed to install everything.
So! I decided to go back to 11 with a 2.6.18 kernel and try it again. But stupid me, not thinking too bright, went through the list from step 1 to step 13 and not starting at step 13 to 1. So, the first thing I downgraded was glibc-solibs 2.4 from 2.5, which was required by most of the softwareon the 12 upgrade. Nothing would work from then on, thankfully, I had a spare hard drive laying around with slackware 10.2 installed.
Now that you have what I did wrong, this is what I think I need to do.
I need to upgrade this installation to 11 to the point where it can be upgraded to 12, or even upgrade it to 12. Since I had so many problems gettin got 12, I think if I just install a 2.6.18 kernel and upgrade it to 11 and get this installation ready for the upgrade, I can upgrade the installation on the other disk, mounted as something like /slackware12.
The only thing I will have to look into is what I will have to do to do an upgrade on another mout point instead of the root partition. It will probably have something to do with the pkgtools commands IE installpkg/upgradepkg.
One main reason I don't want to reinstall is because I have lots of files that I would like to not have to get again, I spent about a week setting it up since I got slackware installed.
I will be looking at man pages and google for the next little while. If I still can't find an answer I will check back here. Sometimes I find writing up a post helps me think something through, which is how I came up with the installpkg upgradepkg man pages idea.