How to upgrade Salix 13.37 to 14.0
Posted: 10. Mar 2013, 00:24
I would like to suggest some changes to the cited Wiki page according to my just finished upgrade:
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b) The command
c) The command
d) If you reboot and the X-Server freezes try the Lilo boot with:
Log in as user and get root with:
will create a new config file /root/xorg.conf.new
Test it with
and save it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Reboot or type startx or type init 4
e) Where is the Midnight Commander gone? Launching it will show this message:
will launch mc again.
Gratulations for this great distro!
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If slapt-get does not proceed it may be caused by the changed network configuration. In this case try to install manually the networking, e.g.:...
Upgrade your udev package, it's locked for upgrades in /etc/slapt-get/slapt-getrc so you have to ask for it explicitly:
slapt-get -i udev
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ifconfig eth0 192.168.x.x
dhcpcd
has to be changed toslapt-get -i udisks usdisks2
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slapt-get -i udisks udisks2
will list the kernel packages but the adviced commandls /var/log/packages/kernel*
will fail. Try instead:slapt-get -i kernel-huge-2.6.37.6-x86_64-2
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slapt-get -i kernel-huge kernel-firmware kernel-headers kernel-modules kernel-source
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Linux 3
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su -
Xorg -configure
Test it with
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Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new -retro
e) Where is the Midnight Commander gone? Launching it will show this message:
The commandFailed to run:
Your old settings were migrated from ~/.mc
to Freedesktop recommended dirs.
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export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~
Gratulations for this great distro!