[ale] Slackware 8.1 upgrade...

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Isn't it great? :)

I was so happy when I was able to UPGRADE 8.0 to 8.1 instead of having to
reinstall. 

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Thus Spake William Wylde <dbaron13 at atl.bellsouth.net>:
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:04:04 -0400


> I did it by the "UPGRADE.TXT" instructions in the .iso image root 
> directory.  Didn't have to fool with any floppies, didn't have to burn a
> 
> CD- just mounted the .iso on a  tmp directory under /home and used the 
> pkgtool to do the work.  You have to install everything 2 times (and the
> 
> easiest way is to do a full-wildcard install), and remove the 7.1 
> packages between (via a series of wildcards given to the pkgtool, once 
> again), and edit lilo.conf to point to /boot/vmlinuz instead of 
> /vmlinuz, then a a few new conf files under /etc to edit and move over 
> the old files (and not too many of those, and thoughtfully added with a 
> .new extension) but then you're good to go!  
> 
> It's sweet!  I'm very impressed so far...
> 
> 
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