How easy it is to lose focus of the end objective once you hit a problem? Very very easy if you ask me. As I had posting in my articles over in the Linux category on my attempts to get wireless working on first Ubuntu Desktop and then Fedora Core, I suddenly realised the getting the wireless to work is not what I want. I wanted to test Ubuntu and check it's feasibility in running webserver and support for my current website.

Once I realised that, I stopped my efforts to make wireless work and concentrated on the task at hand. That is to get Ubuntu to run Zope and Plone on my hardware (Dell Latitude D400). Well, Ubuntu desktop was no problem, The installation and setup ran like a charm and the OS was up and running in no time. But I faced major hurdles in getting the Ubuntu Server running. As I have mentioned earlier, the server won't boot up on my laptop and when I tried it using VMWare, it booted up, but the X server was not starting at all. I checked everything I knew and finally gave up.

The Fedora Project has released it's latest offering Fedora Core 6 (FC6) on 24th October. I downloaded it and instead of upgrading my FC4 to FC5, I decided it would be worth my while to upgrade it directly to FC6. Well the installation was easy if lengthy, but a different set of challenges awaited me.

More on that later.