->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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