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Hi Niki. A fresh install is usually better if your upgrade would span multiple releases (for instance, 10.1 -> 13.37). But those cases are not supported by slackpkg anyway. I will add a note about this. Also I will stress that a new name should be used for a new initrd in order not to overwrite an existing initrd... \\ David, I will also expand a little about .new files. \\ --- // | Hi Niki. A fresh install is usually better if your upgrade would span multiple releases (for instance, 10.1 -> 13.37). But those cases are not supported by slackpkg anyway. I will add a note about this. Also I will stress that a new name should be used for a new initrd in order not to overwrite an existing initrd... \\ David, I will also expand a little about .new files. \\ --- // | ||
+ | >> Just saw the changes you made regarding initrd and .new files (I must have missed the updates in the recent changes list). Thankyou for addressing those little concerns. | ||
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+ | Hi Eric. Very nice job. Just a question here: shouldn' | ||
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+ | I believe, its worth to mention that, the user must change the file in / | ||
+ | I just blanked for some minutes, when I did the upgrade process, since every thing for 13.37 is up-to-date. After changing a mirror link to 14.0, things started to progress... - [[http:// | ||
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