Another journey – BackTrack 3 Beta to Slackware 12.1

Feeling brave?

Try this :

1. Install BT3 to your harddrive, tweak it a bit as you please

2. Upgrade it to Slackware 12.1

a. Go to single user mode

# telinit 1
b. Put your Slackware DVD to DVDROM and mount it

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

c. Upgrade glibc shared libraries

# upgradepkg /mnt/cdrom/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz

d. Upgrade packages utilities

# upgradepkg /mnt/slackware/a/pkgtools-*.tgz

e. Upgrade everything and install (new) packages that doesn’t exist

# upgradepkg –install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz

f. Edit your /etc new config (*.new) either by hand or just fire up the script below (courtesy of slackware.com)

#!/bin/sh
cd /etc
find . -name “*.new” | while read configfile ; do
if [ ! "$configfile" = "./rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.new" \
-a ! "$configfile" = "./group.new" \
-a ! "$configfile" = "./passwd.new" \
-a ! "$configfile" = "./shadow.new" ]; then
cp -a $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev) \
$(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev).bak 2> /dev/null
mv $configfile $(echo $configfile | rev | cut -f 2- -d . | rev)
fi
done

g. Back to multi user mode

# telinit 3