But why would a modern, 64-bit laptop with 512M RAM and images on the local disk take about 20 hours?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">john s.</b> <<a href="mailto:john@johnsdesign.net">
john@johnsdesign.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wade Hampton wrote:<br>> The last couple of days, I upgraded two computers from FC4->FC6 and
<br>> one from FC5->FC6.<br>> They all took 4-5 hours or more to upgrade.<br>><br>> AMD 2800, FC4->FC6, via 10T network, took about 4 hours<br>> AMD x86_64 3000 desktop, FC4->FC6, images on local hard disk, about
<br>> 3 hours<br>> AMD x86_64 3200 laptop, FC5->FC6, images on local disk (VFAT), about<br>> 20 hours<br>><br>> Any idea why it is taking so long to perform upgrades. I have been<br>> doing RH/Fedodra
<br>> updates for many, many years and have never had delays like this,<br>> especially how<br>> long it took to update the laptop.<br>><br>> Also, I have an old 600Mhz computer that I tried to upgrade from
<br>> FC3->FC6, but gave up<br>> after a few hours. I am wondering what I should put on that machine<br>> (128M only,<br>> maybe fresh install of FC6 or just use Knoppix or DSL?).<br>><br>> Any help would be most appreciated.
<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> --<br>> Wade Hampton<br> I bumped (fresh install) my laptop (PIII 600) up from 192 to 384mb for<br>FC6; took about about an hour and 15mins... I was impressed.<br><br>--<br>ÐÏࡱá<br>
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