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[flb]

Here is the way to upgrade your Slackware 12.0 to 12.1.

It works pretty much as indicated in the UPGRADE.TXT file
located on the cd/dvd. Here are the steps for your linode (assuming you already have 12.0 installed).

wget http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1-iso/slackware-12.1-install-d1.iso

Use the above or your favorite mirror!

Once you have the slackware-12.1-install-d1.iso,
mount slackware-12.1-install-d1.iso /mnt -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0

Then execute:

telinit 1

(at this point you will be logged off your linode unless you are connected by lish...
you can get back into your linode with lish or start this process by connecting with lish)

cd /mnt

upgradepkg /mnt/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz

upgradepkg /mnt/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz

upgradepkg --install-new /mnt/slackware/*/*.tgz

That should do it. Read the UPGRADE.TXT if you have questions.
This installs some stuff you probably don't need, like gimp, etc.
If you are worried about disk space you can run pkgtool and remove things you are sure you won't need.

Reboot and..

Have fun!

Fred-

[mwalling]

For those of you in Dallas, I mirrored a slimmed down (see below) slackware-12.1 tree, and its available on ftp and rsync at ftp://internal.you.dontlike.us/slackware/

rsync flags:
Code:
  --exclude "extra/aspell-word-lists/"
  --exclude "extra/source/"
  --exclude "isolinux/"
  --exclude "kernels/"
  --exclude "pasture/source/"
  --exclude "patches/source/"
  --exclude "slackware/k/"
  --exclude "slackware/kde/"
  --exclude "slackware/kdei/"
  --exclude "source/"
  --exclude "testing/source/"
  --exclude "usb-and-pxe-installers/"
  --include "/slackware-12.0"
  --include "/slackware-12.1"
  --exclude "/*"