long wait...

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:10:13 +0900
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

> 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?

3GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2 GB of ram.

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

It took a while for this machine to update itself from FC6 to F7 as well -- it
sat at that "resolving dependencies" screen for quite a while.  But not three
hours.

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