Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

[Wade Hampton]

How about loading Xenix on a Tandy 6000 using a 8" floppy or loading Xenix
on a 386 using a few 5.25" disks.... I deployed Xenix systems over 20 years
ago that used a full 32-bit Microsoft compiler and had uptimes measured in
months while my friends were doing 8 and 16-bit stuff on DOS.....  SCO Xenix
rocked (that was the OLD SCO).  I could load the system and application in
30 minutes or less from 3-4 disks.  Slackware  also loaded quite well from
floppy with a 0.99 kernel....

I have NEVER had a Xenix/Unix/Linux install or upgrade that took over a few
hours, much less well over 12 hours, until I upgraded my laptop last night.
Me thinks something be broke.

Cheers,
--
W


On 11/25/06, grumpy <grumpypenguin at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:56, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:47 -0700, grumpy wrote:
> > > On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:35, Craig White wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 16:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > > > <GrandPa mode> I remember when you loaded Win3.1 with 10 floppies
> and
> > > > > it took one half of a day! <GrandPa mode/>
> > > >
> > > > ----
> > > > not that this is important but Win3.1 was only 3 floppies as I
> recall
> > > > and another 3 for DOS 6.x
> > > >
> > > > It was Win95 that was 10 floppies plus another 4 or 5 for Internet
> > > > Explorer and I seem to recall it taking about 4 hours - half a work
> > > > day  ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Using the Stones 'Start Me Up' was great marketing however.
> > >
> > > of course you remember the 2nd line of that song
> >
> > ----
> > I'll never stop
> >
> > I'm presuming you are referring to 'you make a grown man cry'
> >
> > by the way...your usage of 'micro$ux' pretty much weakens any point that
> > you try to make.
> Comeon you know that it does ;-)
> >
> > Craig
>
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