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Reinstall Linux?

Post by John S. Atchiso » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00



There is documentation somewhere that describes how to go about upgrading your
linux dist.  Basically you have to remove the packages you wish to upgrade and
install the new ones.  I have heard that the new slakware is upgradable(if you
are running the newest slakware and wish to upgrade).  I would back up
everything that is not slakware i.e. user files and local aps you have
installed since installing slakware, then start from scratch.  The installation
is so easy now that it is just simpler to do it that way.  You don't need to
fdisk /mbr if you don't want to since one of the first thing you will be doing
will be to install lilo(after installing the system).  You might want to try
loadlin.  I'v never used it, but I've heard good things about it.  

DON'T FORGET TO SAVE XF86Config!!!

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Reinstall Linux?

Post by S. H » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00


I have a slackware downloaded from network running on my machine. Now I
want to install slackware 3.0 from CD-ROM.  Do I have to run Dos fdisk /mbr
to get rid of lilo and linux fdisk to start from the very beginning, or
there is a short cut?

Thanks in advance.

 
 
 
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Reinstall Linux?

Post by Juergen Exn » Fri, 15 Dec 1995 04:00:00


   I have a slackware downloaded from network running on my machine. Now I
   want to install slackware 3.0 from CD-ROM.  Do I have to run Dos fdisk /mbr
   to get rid of lilo and linux fdisk to start from the very beginning, or
   there is a short cut?

Of course you don't have to throw away all of your work.

Just re-install only those packages from the CD which you want to be
upgraded.

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1. How do I reinstall Linux to a new file system from a running Linux system?

I already have Linux up and running on /dev/hda4.  My swap is /dev/hda3 and
previously I had Windows NT server on /dev/hda2.  /dev/hda1 is my OS2 boot
loader.  So I love Linux, it does everything (and better) then NT server did
(nanny nanny poo poo Billy boy) so I nuked the NT server partition and made
another ext2 Linux partition on /hda2.  I would like to be able to make /hda2
my new Linux system and use /hda4 for user files, games, etc. (non Linux
system stuff).  Right now, /hda2 is empty.  So, how do I get Linux over to
/hda2??

I looked into cp, but the problem is that it doesn't seem to copy files that
have hard/symbolic links to them properly.  At least it didn't seem to work
when I tried to.  Also, it barfs when trying to copy /dev over and I assume it
probably will have a heart attack with /proc.  Anyway, I thought I could
simply copy all the Linux system directories over to  /hda2, reconfigure lilo
to point to it, and then boot.  Doesn't look like I can easily do this.  
Another option I was thinking about, is doing a network install if this is
possible?  I currently have Linux setup with an ISDN high speed Internet
connection (using pppd).  My flavour of Linus is Red Hat 5.2 using kernel
2.1.130 (needed some support in this kernel not available 2.0.36).  Is there a
way I can run the same Red Hat install program that I originally did and ftp
all the files from sunsite over to /hda2 from my running system? I can't
reboot from the floppy install disks to do this, because the ISDN support
isn't there unless my current Linux system is running (I originally did this
by installing the ISDN in a Windoze machine and using ftp through a proxy, but
I don't want to disconnect the device and do this again).

There has to be an easier way?  

Also, I use partition magic (installed in /dev/hdb1 - second IDE drive) to set
this stuff up originally.  It works great and allows me to boot any OS.  It
also allows me to resize partitions - safely.  Is there any advantage to
having my swap partition as /hda3, or should I try to move it physically to
some other part of the disk? ie: move /hda4 to where /hda3 is and
visa-versa putting the swap partition at the end of the disk
partition space. Probably, I should just leave it as it is...

Mark

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