Upgrading to FC6
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 04:25:39 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 20:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:23 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Lonnie Freeman writes:
>
> > > Problems: Upgraded from FC5 to FC6, using CD's. The upgrade was REALLY
> > > SLOW!
> >
> > The rpm database is beginning to really show its age.
> ----
> Perhaps but there are a LOT of dependencies to work through when doing
> an entire version upgrade and some of us have a lot of packages
> installed.
>
> I passed on the upgrade from 4 to 5 and went clean install. I probably
> will do the same for 6 on this box one of these days
The CD part of the fresh install took about 30 minutes. Then all the
stuff from extras, off the net, took longer. But I was impressed with
how quick FC6 installed. It was like Zoooommm! Ric
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