Re: Confession of error...

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:52 -0700, David L. Gehrt wrote:
...I think. I feel a bit boobish. When I started using Linux 10 or more
years ago so there is little excuse for the situation in which I find
myself. I have a (now) small network in my home. It used to be a
gateway/firewall system, a mail server and a couple of laptops. The
firewall and mail systems were old (AMD K6) systems running Core 3. Don't
ask about the laptops. In early April we had a power outage. When the
power came back the firewall was dead-dead-dead. By dead I mean both MoBo
AND the system disk were dead. I had a Windoze box running on an Athlon and
which I was planning to use exclusively to run Photoshop. I got rid of
Windoze, did a full install of Core 6, which I found to be an exceedingly
difficult evolution.

Because I had some difficulty with the full install of Core 6 the question
is what is the likelihood of a successful upgrade straight from Core 3 to
Core 6. So far it isn't looking that good. I booted up the Core 6 DVD
started an upgrade and things stopped at the checking dependencies point.
There was no appearance of the progress bar, after 30 minutes, nor did there
seem to be any activity on he DVD drive.

I am hoping not to have to do a chain of installs starting with the system
at Core 3 --> Core 4 --> Core 5 --> Core 6. If it is even possible to get
core 4 and core 5 installation media. [Checking on installation media
availability is next.]

Any practical advice would be more than welcome.

AdTHANXvance,

The upgrade you suggest is unlikely to be very successful. What I would
do is make tars files of root, etc and you home directories onto a CD or
other repository. Then install FC6 and copy what needs to be copied from
the expanded tar files on your new machine. For home directories I would
use tar -k which replaces only files that don't already exist so the
gnome configuration files in your home directory will be left alone.

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