Confession of error...

[David L. Gehrt]

...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

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