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. -- Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
