Since I had very little personalized settings in 1.4, I decided to upgrade to 1.5 to see how it worked. I use the LILO install.
I loaded the 1.5 disc and did a normal boot. I then selected frugal instal (LILO) from the tools menu and went through the install, selecting yes to reformat hda1.
I got the new theme and the single click and right click icon changes, but that was it.
There were no new options such as the new calendar feature. Everything else was the same, even Firefox had it's same bookmarks.
After several attempts, I had lost half my desktop icons and others were sitting on top of each other.
I had to re-install 1.4 and restore from hda5 to get back to my original setup.
How are you supposed to do an upgrade? Obviously not the way I did
AussieI've never used the install scripts, but it looks like you have an option to upgrade rather than install. An upgrade shouldn't require a format or LILO install, since that was already done.
The easiest way I can think of to upgrade frugal is to simply mount the ISO and copy the new KNOPPIX file over the old one.
All of your personal settings from 1.4 would carry over to 1.5, which means that if you have /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu in your backup file or persistent home you won't see any new menu items when you upgrade. This doesn't mean that they don't exist.....you just can't see them in the menu. The new menu file is located at /etc/skel/.fluxbox/menu
Quote (mikshaw @ Sep. 24 2005,23:22)
The easiest way I can think of to upgrade frugal is to simply mount the ISO and copy the new KNOPPIX file over the old one.
I did do the upgrade first, before trying the format option - but it had the same effect.
How do you mount an ISO?
Since it's midnight here, I won't be able to talk to you until this time again tomorrow, so I only get a small window of opportunity to talk in "real" time.
Where should I download the ISO to - /opt?
How do you "see" and "extract" the contents of an ISO in Linux?
Thanks, AussieIt doesn't matter where you download the file, as long as you have space for it. It's best to save to a mounted drive if you don't have 50mb to spare in ramdisk. It might also be best to do this from a liveCD or other distro rather than from within your frugal setup....although i'm not sure if it makes a difference.
Code Sample
sudo mount -o loop /path/to/dsl-1.5.iso /mnt/test
After doing this you should have /mnt/test/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX Copy this file over your current KNOPPIX file and you should be set.
Regardless of how you upgrade, just remember that you are using configs from a previous version...anything new that is added to the menu won't show up if you are still using the 1.4 menu, anything that you may have changed in other personal configs will also prevent the new ones from displaying. Robert made a thread a little while ago that listed what personal files have changes in 1.5. The fluxbox menu and .xinitrc are two that i know of. It might be a good idea to first start DSL 1.5 without restoring your backup or myDSL (boot options "norestore" and "base") and compare the files in /home/dsl with those in your backup. This is a good idea with any upgrade, since even a minor change to a file could mean a major change to the way your system behaves.This was taken from a post by roberts from a different section of the forums.
"The best way to experience all the new features is to boot with the norestore option.
The are some files that need to be updated that may be in your backup which will overwrite these new files in /home/dsl/
1. .fluxbox/menu -- new items and adjustment 2. .xtdeskrc -- is no longer used 3. .xtdesktop/ -- new features 4. .dillo/dillorc -- needed for matching system font 5. .xmms/Skins/xmmsSkin.tar.bz2 -- the new theme 6. .xfiletool.lst -- new entry 7 .xinitrc -- added the dock apps here
As root, you can simply copy over the new files/directories from /etc/skel"
I used the script like you did and followed roberts directions and everything went pretty smoothly.Next Page...
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