...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, dlg David L. Gehrt Land Line: 805.541.2390 1865 Wilding Lane Cell phone: 805.704.5890 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3044 Email: dlg@xxxxxxxxxxx
