slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade

[Henry Hartley]

Henry Hartley wrote:
> 
> Marcel Janssen wrote:
> >> 
> >> On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:40, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >> >     Has anyone else found the upgrade from FC4 to FC5 to be
> >> > painfully slow? A user here started the upgrade this morning
> >> > with IDE=nodma and the anaconda claims to need close to 450
> >> > minutes to complete. Is this normal? The machine has an
> >> > ultra IDE drive.
> >> 
> >> Same here, >300minutes to upgrade my P4-2.4Ghz machine.
> 
> Well, on my (very old and slow) pentium 200, I'm into my second
> day and it's working on disc 2.  Remaining time is currently
> estimated as 11,985 minutes (over 8 days).
> 
> For the record, I did NOT include ide=nodma when I started this.

At 4:00 (3.5 hours later) I was asked for disc 3 and the estimated time
remaining was down to a "reasonable" 3,235 minutes.  At 4:15 I got an
error saying it could not read
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-15-100dpi-7.0-3.noarch.rpm and I get one option -
[Reboot].  No choice to skip that package or to replace the CD and try
again.  Just reboot.  Sweet.

-- 
Henry