->fc6: Pkg Installation - "may take several minutes" - 36 hours later!!

[sean]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 4/25/07, sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:40:52 -0400
>> > sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Upgrading to FC6, off a hard disk partition. Text install
>> >> goes without error, until the Package Installation screen
>> >> appears. There's a popup:
>> >>
>> >> "starting install process. This may take several minutes..."
>> >>
>> >> That was 36 hours ago!
>> >>
>> >> No disk access lights flashing.
>> >>
>> >> This is a slow old machine 400mz, 128meg ram, but it runs fc5.
>> >
>> > 128MB is pushing it for an update but it will find and use your swap so
>> > it ought to be ok. 36 hours on I'd have expected the system to have
>> > finished (and if not to be thrashing the disk like a lunatic trying to
>> > fit stuff in swap)
>> >
>> > How much swap does the box have ?
>> >
>>
>> There's a 1 gig swap partition. It's an old Gateway the I
>> use without X, just cli, as an internal firewall, dhcp
>> server, etc. I'd like to upgrade to keep all the little
>> housekeeping settings I've made over the years.
>>
>> I'm also surprised it's not disk trashing - that's what I
>> expected. 36 hours might not be too long to actually install
>>   the packages.
>>
>> But it never even started - no disk access light once the
>> Package Installation screen came up.
>>
>> It there any way to check if anaconda actually finds the
>> swap partition ( Which shouldn't be hard - only one disk,
>> swap is hda2 )?
> 
> What shows on the other console (ctrl-alt-F2)?
> 

Never knew you could access another console on install.

The install kernel did find a swap partition with 360 megs. 
70megs were cached, ~ 300 megs free.

top showed anaconda cpu at 99.4% and .exe ( ?? ) at 0.5%.

So maybe anaconda really doing something - hard to imagine 
if it's not accessing the disk but maybe another night could 
  show progress.

What is anaconda supposed to be doing at this stage?

sean