[SOLVED] Few day old Puppy user with Slacko64 6.3.2. Upgrade from 14.1 to 14.2 sources?

globetrotterdk · 06-03-2020, 04:45 AM

I can see a whole list of 14.2 .pet files and Slackware 14.2 stuff here, but I can't figure out the process to go through to edit sources in Puppy Package Manager. puppy-slacko64 14.1 official appears to be hard coded, however there is a puppy-slacko6414.2-official listed at the above link, as well as a puppy-slacko-7.0 that I don't see any reference to at the official Puppy download site. Any advice would be welcome.

colorpurple21859 · 06-03-2020, 05:40 AM

What is it your attempting to do? Puppy isn't your standared linux installation, that your able to upgrade as you do other distros. If your attempting to upgrade from Slacko64 6.3.2 to -slacko-7.0 you will need to replace the, vmlinuz, initrd, and sfs files of 6.3.2 with the files of 7.0.

globetrotterdk · 06-03-2020, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

What is it your attempting to do? Puppy isn't your standared linux installation, that your able to upgrade as you do other distros. If your attempting to upgrade from Slacko64 6.3.2 to -slacko-7.0 you will need to replace the, vmlinuz, initrd, and sfs files of 6.3.2 with the files of 7.0.

Sounds good. Do I just download them, then drag and drop them into place? What about changing the repos to 14.2 source?

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Presumably grub4dos will also need to be edited manually? How do I do that?

colorpurple21859 · 06-03-2020, 09:15 AM

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Sounds good. Do I just download them, then drag and drop them into place?

or create a slacko7 directory at the top of your partition drop the files into it, add a menuy entry for slack7 to the grub menu.lst or grub.cfg depending on which grub your using, and have this included in the kernel line psubdir=slacko7

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What about changing the repos to 14.2 source?

I still don't know what you mean by this or what your attempting to do. If you need the kernel source to build software you will need the devx_slacko_<version>.sfs file for the puppy version your using.

SlackO is built off of Slackware but isn't similar to Slackware.

globetrotterdk · 06-03-2020, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

or create a slacko7 directory at the top of your partition drop the files into it, add a menuy entry for slack7 to the grub menu.lst or grub.cfg depending on which grub your using, and have this included in the kernel line psubdir=slacko7

Oh wow, cool. I will try to experiment with that.

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

I still don't know what you mean by this or what your attempting to do. If you need the kernel source to build software you will need the devx_slacko_<version>.sfs file for the puppy version your using.

SlackO is built off of Slackware but isn't similar to Slackware.

I understand that Slacko isn't Slackware. However, I do assume that .pet files built from Slackware 14.2 are newer than 14.1 which is what Slacko64 6.3.2 is based on. We clearly are communicating past each other here. I just want to upgrade to the latest Slacko system, as everyone I know seems to think that Slacko as is is too old compared to the Ububtu based Puppy versions. It seems particularly relevant if I upgrade to Slacko 7 bits.

colorpurple21859 · 06-03-2020, 05:26 PM

Here is posts on upgrading puppy using xdelta, never done it this way so don't know much about it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52232
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80895

globetrotterdk · 06-04-2020, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Here is posts on upgrading puppy using xdelta, never done it this way so don't know much about it.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=52232
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80895

Thanks, I will see if I can find the necessary files.