Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

[john s.]

Wade Hampton wrote:
> The last couple of days, I upgraded two computers from FC4->FC6 and 
> one from FC5->FC6. 
> They all took 4-5 hours or more to upgrade. 
>
>   AMD 2800, FC4->FC6, via 10T network, took about 4 hours
>   AMD x86_64 3000 desktop, FC4->FC6, images on local hard disk, about 
> 3 hours
>   AMD x86_64 3200 laptop, FC5->FC6, images on local disk (VFAT), about 
> 20 hours
>
> Any idea why it is taking so long to perform upgrades.  I have been 
> doing RH/Fedodra
> updates for many, many years and have never had delays like this, 
> especially how
> long it took to update the laptop.
>
> Also, I have an old 600Mhz computer that I tried to upgrade from 
> FC3->FC6, but gave up
> after a few hours.  I am wondering what I should put on that machine 
> (128M only,
> maybe fresh install of FC6 or just use Knoppix or DSL?).  
>  
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Wade Hampton
  I bumped (fresh install) my laptop (PIII 600) up from 192 to 384mb for 
FC6; took about about an hour and 15mins... I was impressed.

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