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Kernel updated!

August 8, 2006

I’ve done upgrading the kernel to 2.6.14 last weekend and right now I’m a bit comfortable with it. I’m not worried anymore that I might have missed a module or two during the upgrade process.

What I did was a three-step process, actually. The first was to reinstall the entire system, but during the install process itself, I have booted the test26.s image (from the CD) to start things. After copying the necessary files, I selected the test26 kernel image as the one to be used in my new linux installation. After rebooting the system, I installed the other packages in the testing directory of the second install CD of Slackware 10.2 (the kernel modules and alsa drivers, specifically).

That’s all there is to it. I’ve tried the upgrade a few times before, but it was the first time that I got things to work without introducing new problems to the system.

Of course, things were a lot  easier since I have a backup of all the utilities I’ve downloaded and all documents in my then current installation. So when trying a major upgrade like this, don’t forget to BACKUP!

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