Slackware install - 4.5.6 to 4.7

[warpspeed]

Hi folks,

 

A friend of mine helped me install a Unraid server on Slackware - following some of the wiki instructions here (kudos to those who wrote those up BTW) - anyway, I'm currently using 4.5.6 and it's generally been running great for me, however in preparation for 5.0 and also adding some new 2TB HDD's, I'd like to upgrade to 4.7.

 

I'd just like to know what folks would recommend given that I'm running Slackware, with regards to doing the upgrade - is it still the same procedure? if someone is familiar with the procedure, I'd love to hear any tips or pointers. I'd hate to mess up my unRAID server.

 

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated

[elkay14]

You'll just have to upgrade your slackware again when you go from 4.7 to 5 (5 is based on slackware 13, 4.7 on 12.)

 

I'd stay put and wait for 5 to be released.

[peter_sm]

I'm in same situation, but I only want to upgrade the bzroot with new kernel, so I would like to see a step by step instruction that clearly describe each step to successful update bzroot  with new kernel 

 

 

[warpspeed]

You'll just have to upgrade your slackware again when you go from 4.7 to 5 (5 is based on slackware 13, 4.7 on 12.)

 

I'd stay put and wait for 5 to be released.

 

I'm actually already running Slackware 13.1 with unraid 4.5.6. That said, I'd like to upgrade my kernel anyway too. My server has been running perfectly though for the last year.

 

uname -a

Linux unraid 2.6.33-smp #2 SMP Sat Jan 15 06:30:11 CST 2011 i686 AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

 

cat /etc/slackware-version

Slackware 13.1.0