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Tina Le wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have a few questions hope you can help
> 1.  How to make the LILO boot floppy to not wait on the boot: prompt ?
> 
> 2.  Is there away to tell LILO boot floppy what type of CDROM the system have
> when making it from the setup menu ?  Mine does a search everytime I boot
> up the system, abit annoying.  " Looking for Matsushita/Panasonic,
> CreativeLabs, Longshine, TEAC CD-ROM drives".
> 
> 3.  Is there a way to update Slackware to a current release without buying
> new CD every release.  It does not work if I only install packages that
> have been changed since the last release.  At least not for me.  I may be
> doing something wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tina Le

Tina,

I can help you on Q3.

Upgrading a Linux system from an old version to a new version isn't
that easy to do without a little help; there are so many dependencies
that will "getcha" if you miss something.

I _UPGRADED_ from Slackware 2.0 (kernel 1.2.13) to kernel 2.1.18
using a package of updates from:

   David Bourgin
   E-mail: dbourgin@wsc.com
   Web: http://www.accescyb.fr/~rezo1/homepage.html

David has put together a great upgrade package, that will now bring
you up to version 2.0.23 for a production kernel.

The package is located at:

   ftp://ftp.wsc.com/pub/freeware/linux/update.linux/

I found that I used the main 'update2-0', and the 'update2-0.addon1';
the 'update2-0.addon2' was mostly packages I didn't use (other than
ipfwadm; which I installed manually);

Brian
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