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August 13th, 2007 ··· andarius
Alright. This is a nasty one but I would like to make sure no one else steps in the pit like I did. Take heed.
Stick to your practices when you are on your system or any other. Don’t test unless you are ready to sacrifice something. Be prepared for when things go wrong. If you are not things will get nasty for you fast.
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April 4th, 2007 ··· andarius
A few handy tid bits of shell commands to help one allong!
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April 3rd, 2007 ··· andarius
After installation not many people have need to modify their drive set up. If you do here are some things that may help.
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March 23rd, 2007 ··· andarius
Keep Slackware up to date in a few simple steps.
Slackpkg is an automated (for the most part) tool to do just that. In the /extra directory on a Slackware mirror you can find it. Download slackpkg for your version and do the following as root after it is installed.
Edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors. Read the top of the file for information on this. Basically you need to un-comment a mirror of choice. You should also list any package you don’t want upgraded in the file /etc/slackpkg/blacklist.
Run slackpkg update to get the current file listing:
slackpkg update
Once it is done do the deed, here we check everything:
slackpkg upgrade-all
Follow the prompts from there.
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March 21st, 2007 ··· andarius
Recently I was presented with the task to migrate a Windows XP installation from an 80 gig PATA drive to a 160 gig SATA drive. The purpose of the migration was two fold. One to increase the size and performance of the system by moving it to the larger and faster SATA drive and two being the implementation of a back up system. Here I will touch on the migration only, the back up may come later.
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