Confession of error...FC6 install time on old K6
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Mon Apr 30 05:04:58 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:52 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > Because I had some difficulty with the full install of Core 6 the question
> > is what is the likelihood of a successful upgrade straight from Core 3 to
> > Core 6. So far it isn't looking that good. I booted up the Core 6 DVD
> > started an upgrade and things stopped at the checking dependencies point.
> > There was no appearance of the progress bar, after 30 minutes, nor did there
> > seem to be any activity on he DVD drive.
> My old K6 test machine took 128 minutes (2 hours plus) to do an install of FC6
>
> It is probably faster to do a minimal install, and then to do stepwise installs
> of the packages you want. It, at least, will *seem* to be faster.
>
>
> Wolfe
>
A with a recent partial install of FC6 on a PII-233/512, after lunch I
put on a long movie. Both the movie and the install finished about the
same time.
On a PII-400 a full install, I think it took 2 movies...
Simon
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