long wait...

[John Summerfield]

Frank Cox wrote:
> I tried updating this computer from F7 to F8 earlier today.  I booted it off a
> CDR, pointed it to the DVD image on my fileserver, and let 'er rip.  It got to
> about the 26% mark on "resolving dependencies" that others have mentioned, and
> then sat. And sat. I saw a bit of network activity and a bit of hard drive
> activity once in a while so it wasn't hung up.
> 

Computer specs?

> About 3 hours later I gave up for the moment and rebooted the computer so I'm
> back at F7.
> 
> I'm thinking of trying this again overnight tonight -- firing it up just before
> I go to bed and see what it looks like in the morning.  However, it occurs to
> me that after it finishes "resolving dependencies" it will sit there and ask me
> to confirm that it's ok to start writing to the hard drive.

My laptop (Celeron [0M>] 1.5 Ghz, 256 Mbytes) took a good 12 hours to go 
from FC3 to FC5.



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John

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