Path: lon-reader.news.telstra.net!lon-numberer.news.telstra.net!pit-spool.telstra.net!pit-in2.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!transit4.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:47:08 +0200 From: Kees Theunissen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080328 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: Installation References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Message-ID: <485ad3cd$0$14344$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.160.204.132 X-Trace: 1213912013 news.xs4all.nl 14344 [::ffff:83.160.204.132]:10594 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: lon-reader.news.telstra.net alt.os.linux.slackware:101940 Tim wrote: > I have an old laptop I am running Slack 10.2 on. There is nothing that needs > to be saved. The DVD drive is gettng very flakey so I do not want to risk a > fresh install of Slack 12.1 from disk. I can often get to the lilo menu and > from the 10.2 CD (wont read DVDs at all anymore). My question is, if I boot > from Slack 10.2 CD, can I install Slack 12.1 (files on harddrive) instead, > and how would I do that? If you have the 12.1 distribution available on HD you can add a section to your /etc/lilo.conf reading: image = /path_to_the_12.1_files/kernels/huge.s/bzImage initrd = /path_to_the_12.1_files/isolinux/initrd.img append = "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s" label = Install_12.1 And of course rerun lilo. This should boot you directly in the 12.1 installer. Regards, Kees. -- Kees Theunissen. o o O o o And from machine 'later', here's the slackware-11.0 lilo.conf: root@later:~# cat /mnt/etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf for 'later' -- 2008-08-04 # boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hda6 read-only compact prompt timeout = 50 default = install-12.1 #default = 2.6.27-rc7a #default = 2.6.26.5a #default = 2.4.37-rc1 #default = 2.4.36.7 image = /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-rc7a label = 2.6.27-rc7a image = /boot/bzImage-2.6.26.5a label = 2.6.26.5a image = /boot/bzImage-2.4.37-rc1 label = 2.4.37-rc1 image = /boot/bzImage-2.4.36.7 label = 2.4.36.7 image = /boot/vmlinuz label = Slackware image = /home/install/slackware-12.1/kernels/huge.s/bzImage initrd = /home/install/slackware-12.1/isolinux/initrd.img append = "load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s" label = install-12.1 # This is after successful install of slackware-12.1 to an old machine that otherwise requires a boot disk from slackware-11.0/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk to have the CDROM recognised at boot time or the classic three disk boot followed with the network disk in order to perform a network install. -- 2008-10-03