[ale] Upgrade hell

[Geoffrey]

Cor van Dijk wrote:

> I then tried a complete reinstall of RH 7.2, reformatting all partitions 
> and checking for bad blocks, but with the same result: hangs!
> I ran a memtest for several hours: zero errors. No interrupt conflicts 
> that I can see.

I'd first go with a newer version.  I've installed SuSE 9.2 on all kinds 
of hardware.  The main hangup is enough memory.  I've got a pentium 166 
laptop with Suse 9.2 (128mb memory).

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Until later, Geoffrey