upgrading from F7 to F8

[Lou Spironello]

Hey Tim:

I forgot to mention that I was doing a hard disk install from the DVD iso
image because I don't have a DVD burner.  :-(  The machine I have is only a
1.6GZ box.  Slow by today's standards.

The Check Dependencies procedure seems to pause for a long time at the 25%
mark and about the 50% mark.  between 25%-50% there seemed to be a
noticeable progression of the status bar.


Regards,
Lou


On Nov 11, 2007 10:44 AM, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> Mariusz wrote:
>
> > I am reporting the same problem: the Fedora 8 installer hangs during the
> > F7->F8 upgrade at "Checking dependencies in packages selected for
> > installation...". This is happening to me at 26% mark (you can see the
> > progress when making your upgrade in the text mode). I tried it several
> > times, both in graphical and text modes. The hang is always occurring at
> > exactly the same place.
> ...
> > Like Antti, I NEVER had this problem before, and I always have been
> > upgrading, never making fresh installs, all the way from Red Hat 7.3
> > through Red Hats 8, 9, and, subsequently, all the Fedora Core releases
> > until F7. The upgrades itself were always successful.
>
> You have been lucky.
> I have had the same, or similar, problems frequently
> with previous CD versions of Fedora, both upgrading and clean
> installation.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that the CD or DVD reading part of anaconda
> is not the best.
> The most annoying part was when it said it did not have the driver
> for the CD reader, after it had been using it for some time.
>
> I long ago gave up trying to use CDs or DVDs,
> and now always use hard disk upgrades.
>
>
>
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