Yay System Upgrades
Phew, I think that is just about over…
On Sunday I threw the new hard disk and power supply into my server, and thankfully everything started right up. However, transferring the operating system to the new disk turned out to be significantly trickier. In the end I decided to go ahead and install Mandriva 2007 Spring since I was hoping to do that sometime soon anyway. It turned out to be a good choice (at least so far…), since some of the essential packages are much better integrated into the distribution. Setting up Postfix with TLS went surprisingly quickly, for example.
Of course, while I am juggling all this, I am also trying to get third term grades wrapped up, and consult, so I am stressed out! But I think it will get better now that this admin hassle is out of the way. Hopefully my server will survive the pwn3d-timeout and I will get to stop thinking about all this stuff for a bit.