Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

[Wade Hampton]

But why would a modern, 64-bit laptop with 512M RAM and images on the local
disk take about 20 hours?

On 11/25/06, john s. <john at johnsdesign.net> wrote:
>
> 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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