More of my idiocies with updating kernels...
by FTIO from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5NAT9)
Hey gang,
Sorry this seems to be a thing with me, but, it *is* important afterall, and I sure do want to be able to keep up with kernel updates as I was so easily able to do with all the Slackware versions I've used up to and including 14.2.
What I mean by 'easily able to do' is, that using 'lilo', it was as simple as simple gets. Install the updated kernel stuff that I got in my e-mail list from the Slackware team, and then did 'lilo'. Rebooted, and done. Something even the village idiot - me - could do.
Now that We're headed into V15 and I have a new machine I've built, this MOBO doesn't let me use lilo when I install 'current', so I end up with 'elilo'.
The only thing about that is, I have absolutely zero idea what to do if/when a kernel update comes around using 'elilo'.
I've tried reading up on the 'net about it, in Slackware docs, etc, but as usual it's all left me even more confused what to do after doing an
Code:upgradepkg <kernel stuff> It just seems as I'm getting older and the memory is getting worse quickly (no thanks to the help of contracting encephalitis when I was 27 years old also, meh), if it isn't kept simpleton-ly for folk like me, I'm going to lose out, and being disabled, my computer is the *ONLY* thing that has kept me from going ape-s*^t crazy these past 21 years and blowing my brains out.
I absolutely refuse to go to a different distro, like one of the 'buntus, because I've used other distro's - SuSE and Mandrake the first five or six years +/- after wiping my drives of anything M$ in the year 2000. I do not want to use anything with systemd either. I just really like the way Slackware is so easy when it comes to installing software/programs and keeping it up-to-date compared to 'rpm' distros.
So, I want more than anything to stick with Slackware, but just need help made for simpletons on how to upgrade kernel stuff when my system is installed with 'elilo'.
(Sorry for such a long post for such a simple request)
Sorry this seems to be a thing with me, but, it *is* important afterall, and I sure do want to be able to keep up with kernel updates as I was so easily able to do with all the Slackware versions I've used up to and including 14.2.
What I mean by 'easily able to do' is, that using 'lilo', it was as simple as simple gets. Install the updated kernel stuff that I got in my e-mail list from the Slackware team, and then did 'lilo'. Rebooted, and done. Something even the village idiot - me - could do.
Now that We're headed into V15 and I have a new machine I've built, this MOBO doesn't let me use lilo when I install 'current', so I end up with 'elilo'.
The only thing about that is, I have absolutely zero idea what to do if/when a kernel update comes around using 'elilo'.
I've tried reading up on the 'net about it, in Slackware docs, etc, but as usual it's all left me even more confused what to do after doing an
Code:upgradepkg <kernel stuff> It just seems as I'm getting older and the memory is getting worse quickly (no thanks to the help of contracting encephalitis when I was 27 years old also, meh), if it isn't kept simpleton-ly for folk like me, I'm going to lose out, and being disabled, my computer is the *ONLY* thing that has kept me from going ape-s*^t crazy these past 21 years and blowing my brains out.
I absolutely refuse to go to a different distro, like one of the 'buntus, because I've used other distro's - SuSE and Mandrake the first five or six years +/- after wiping my drives of anything M$ in the year 2000. I do not want to use anything with systemd either. I just really like the way Slackware is so easy when it comes to installing software/programs and keeping it up-to-date compared to 'rpm' distros.
So, I want more than anything to stick with Slackware, but just need help made for simpletons on how to upgrade kernel stuff when my system is installed with 'elilo'.
(Sorry for such a long post for such a simple request)