But why would a modern, 64-bit laptop with 512M RAM and images on the local disk take about 20 hours? <div>On 11/25/06, john s. <<a href="mailto:john@johnsdesign.net"> john@johnsdesign.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wade Hampton wrote: > The last couple of days, I upgraded two computers from FC4->FC6 and > one from FC5->FC6. > They all took 4-5 hours or more to upgrade. > > AMD 2800, FC4->FC6, via 10T network, took about 4 hours > AMD x86_64 3000 desktop, FC4->FC6, images on local hard disk, about > 3 hours > AMD x86_64 3200 laptop, FC5->FC6, images on local disk (VFAT), about > 20 hours > > Any idea why it is taking so long to perform upgrades. I have been > doing RH/Fedodra > updates for many, many years and have never had delays like this, > especially how > long it took to update the laptop. > > Also, I have an old 600Mhz computer that I tried to upgrade from > FC3->FC6, but gave up > after a few hours. I am wondering what I should put on that machine > (128M only, > maybe fresh install of FC6 or just use Knoppix or DSL?). > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > Cheers, > -- > Wade Hampton I bumped (fresh install) my laptop (PIII 600) up from 192 to 384mb for FC6; took about about an hour and 15mins... I was impressed. -- ะฯเกฑแ -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>