going to F19 using fedora-upgrade

[Adam Pribyl]

On Wed, 29 May 2013, Karel Volný wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> just FTR, yesterday I've tried to upgrade my laptop to F19.
>
> I've chosen to use fedora-upgrade.
>
> Note that I've run that in console, and I logged out from KDE a few minutes 
> after finishing the download, just when I noticed higher disc activity 
> indicating that yum started installing new packages.
>
> This phase took more than two hours ... um, I guess we really need to speed up 
> yum/rpm/underlying filesystem, if a clean F17 install on the same machine took 
> less than 20 minutes :-/

This is definitely due to disk slownes, especially laptops have usually 
5400rpm drives. On SSD it took me 20 minutes to upgrade >2500 packages.
Not sure what kind of install you mean, maybe live CD may take such a 
short time?

> Great job, Mirek (and all the packagers making sure there are no troubles with 
> updating their packages)!
>
> K.

Adam Pribyl