nilson Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 I'm at my aunt's house downloading Slackware 9.1 right now... She has DSL at 1 Mbps. I'm going to have to stretch downloading the four CDs over two days since it takes so long.I would do this more often, but it's not nice to come and just use someone's bandwidth up :)Anyway, hope I'll have fun with Slack Quote
nilson Posted February 25, 2004 Author Posted February 25, 2004 a scary moment....Firefox crashed while downloading, and cut my downloads off half-way.Thankfully, I was able to recover the downloads with wget (Should've known to use goold old wget) Quote
Bruno Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 Before you wear out your aunt's broadband connection: You are writing about 4 ISO's . . . you only need 2 !! ( don't need the sources CDs . . . ) Bruno Quote
nilson Posted February 25, 2004 Author Posted February 25, 2004 I only have two atm. I saw that this was a complete install, so I'm not gonna get more :)I have Slackware up and running nicely and I must say that it's the best distro I've used yet.May I ask which package manager Slackware uses?I also have a 5 GB FAT32 win/lin share on the disk :)Thanks Bruno Quote
nilson Posted February 25, 2004 Author Posted February 25, 2004 Has anyone had any experience upgrading Slack 9.1 to the 2.6 kernel? I would like to get a 2.6 kernel for many reasons, including ALSA. Quote
jodef Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 The update tool to use for Slackware 8.1 and higher is:Swaretits great you'll enjoy it. Quote
Bruno Posted February 25, 2004 Posted February 25, 2004 Hi Nilson:D This is your lucky day . . . . I just added a Tip about Swaret: Swaret ( For Slackware )There are some useful hints for dial-up users in there . . . so you could think it was specially written for you !! Bruno Quote
nilson Posted February 26, 2004 Author Posted February 26, 2004 Thanks Bruno and jodef :)I am now recompiling kernel 2.6.3. I had 2.6.3 running smoothly but the network was not working, so I had to change a few options Quote
SonicDragon Posted February 27, 2004 Posted February 27, 2004 Try out swaret. It's much nicer than slackware's default package manager IMHO. . I am now recompiling kernel 2.6.3. I had 2.6.3 running smoothly but the network was not working, so I had to change a few optionsI'd love to hear how it goes. I haven't been that adventurous yet. I'm still running 2.4.22 Quote
nilson Posted February 27, 2004 Author Posted February 27, 2004 Well I can't get the network card to work... And now nvidia drivers don't work.I have kept the 2.4 kernel in place as well.I am in Windows right now. Quote
Bruno Posted February 27, 2004 Posted February 27, 2004 Hi NilsonMy advice: Go back to the 2.4 kernel and wait for Slackware ( or any other distro ) to have the 2.6 as default . . . it is all just too new to run trouble free on all hardware :DB) Bruno Quote
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