Confession of error...
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Apr 30 14:33:10 UTC 2007
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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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam at sbcglobal.net
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