[ale] Slackware 12.0 installation scripts

[Boris Borisov]

Im not pro nor guru. I've using slackware in the past with compiling some
custom packages that weren't available in the Slackware. That's it :)


But if you have backup dont be afraid.


Why 12 not latest ?

On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <deepbsd.ale at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 10/06/2014 03:13 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
>
> What about backup first. Do you have a lot of customisation of the slack.
>
>
> All backed up.
>
> Back in the day I did customize, but since I've been upgrading to catch
> up, I've kept it pretty vanilla.  The whole /usr/local area was so old
> there wasn't much worth keeping.  Lots of that stuff has since been rolled
> into mainstream slack anyway.  Or at least into the slackware/extra
> category if not into the main distro.
>
> But yeah, I had to hand edit my /etc scripts somewhat.
>
> My main reason for even doing this is to catch up my skills and know how,
> since I've been away from Linux for  several years now.  So I could just
> nuke and repave, but that would defeat my purpose.  So instead, I'm looking
> for details on testing installation success from the install scripts and
> recovering from where I am at.
>
> Do you know of a way to see any errors that the install scripts gave up?
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Monday, October 6, 2014, David S Jackson <deepbsd.ale at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','deepbsd.ale at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a pet Slackware box (athlon 3.6 now) that I've been nursing along
>> recently. It was last upgraded in 2005 (Slack 10.0 I think).  I've had
>
>
>

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