(My response re Slackware upgrading, forwarded to the TCLUG List - I assume his question to me went to the list also. CO2) Hi Josh, Yes, there is a file named UPGRADE.TXT . I found it on the Oregon State mirror online, under the Slackware 10.1 directory - not the ISO directory, the other one. (If you get the ISO image it should be on the image, though I haven't confirmed that.) Anyway, here it is - I copied the contents to this email. I haven't done it yet - I subscribe to Slackware and will wait for the official disks to arrive. (I switched to Slack last spring so I am only moderately experienced with the distro.) Basically you are using the upgradepkg command, and then cleaning up config files that have changed. It looks extremely similar to the 9.1 to 10.0 procedure. Enjoy, and keep the Slack. CO2 ---- Slackware 10.0 to 10.1 Upgrade HOWTO <volkerdi at slackware.com> This document explains how to upgrade from Slackware 10.0 to Slackware 10.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before you begin, I would strongly recommend making a backup of your system, or, if not the entire system, at least the /etc directory. You might find that you need to refer to a few things about the upgrade process is complete. Back it up, or take your chances. OK, now that everything is safely backed up, let's proceed. :-) To do this, you'll need the Slackware 10.1 packages. If these are on a CD, create a new directory to mount the CD on so that it doesn't get in the way during the upgrade: mkdir /packages mount /dev/cdrom /packages The packages don't have to be on a CD-ROM, as an alternative you could copy the slackware directory (the one with the various package subdirectories in it, basically the "slackware" directory from the install CD) to someplace like /root/slackware/. The important thing is that you know where the slackware packages directory is. We'll use /root/slackware in the following examples. 0. Put your machine in single-user mode: telinit 1 1. Upgrade your glibc shared libraries. This is important, or things might go haywire during the first part of the upgrade: upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz 2. Upgrade your package utilities: upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz 3. Install sed. You should already have this, but since it's used by the package utilities it is best to be sure: upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/a/sed-*.tgz 4. Upgrade everything else (and install new packages): upgradepkg --install-new /root/slackware/*/*.tgz 5. Make sure your system will boot. If you use LILO, make sure the paths in /etc/lilo.conf point to a valid kernel and then type 'lilo' to reinstall LILO. If you use a bootdisk, you'll need to use makebootdisk to make a new bootdisk using the kernel in /boot. 6. Fix your config files. Some of the config files in /etc are going to need your attention. You'll find the new incoming config files on your system with the ".new" extension. You may need to fill these in with information from your old config files and then move them over. Feel brave? You can use this little script to install all of the .new config files in /etc. If you've made any local changes you'll need to add them to the newly installed files. Your old config files will be copied to *.bak. Anyway, it might be an easier starting point. Here it is: #!/bin/sh cd /etc find . -name "*.new" | while read configfile ; do if [ ! "$configfile" = "./rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.new" \ -a ! "$configfile" = "./group.new" \ -a ! "$configfile" = "./passwd.new" \ -a ! "$configfile" = "./shadow.new" ]; then cp -a $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev) \ $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev).bak 2> /dev/null mv $configfile $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev) fi done You'll probably also need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the name of the keyboard driver from "Keyboard" to "kbd". I don't know why this changed, but it did. 7. Return to multi-user mode: telinit 3 8. Remove obsolete packages. If you go into /var/log/packages and take a look at the package list: ls -lt | less You may spot some old, obsolete, or discontinued packages. If so, you can remove these using 'removepkg'. 9. Remove KDE language bloat. By upgrading all packages using --install-new you've probably installed all of the KDE language translations from the KDEI series, which will use up about 500MB. If you need only US English, you may remove the KDE language packs like this: cd /var/log/packages removepkg kde-i18n* koffice-i18n* Even if you need one of these, it might be best to start by removing them all, and then go back and install the ones you need with installpkg. At this point you should be running Slackware 10.1. :-) I wish everyone good luck with this! --- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi at slackware.com