FC4 to FC5 upgrade slow

[Mark Haney]

James Wilkinson wrote:
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> That's slow, but depending on the speed of the computer, it's not
> unexpectedly slow. The FC5 installer uses yum to install RPMs, which is
> rather more careful / slower than the previous installers.
>
> It should speed up in future releases of Fedora, as the yum engine gets
> more performance attention.
>
> James.
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>   
This box is a dual Opteron box with 4GB RAM.  Should it be that slow?


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Mark Haney
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