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

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Apr 26 15:21:25 UTC 2007


sean 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.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> sean
> 

On my machine with 2 gig of ram, an upgrade took almost 7 hours.  A 
clean install a few weeks later took less than 4 hours complete.

My point is that an upgrade takes much longer than a clean install.


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