Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

[Wade Hampton]

OK, but I have NEVER had it take that long in the past.

I guess I'll try a fresh load on the old 600 Mhz machine and give it to my
10 year old.  Or do you recommend DSL?

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W

On 11/25/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 15:20 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote:
> > 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
>
> Upgrades do take a helluva long time. It's all the dependancy checking,
> finding apps to update that are not just core or extras apps, all of the
> goings on that hogs up the CPU for incredibly long periods of time. With
> an Athlon 64 3200+ and two gigs of memory (almost no swap going on) I
> did a fresh install in about 30 minutes. Yeah, I couldn't believe that
> myself. Then I went to install KDE and some other goodies and that took
> about 4 hours of dnload time. So, overall you didn't do bad.
>
> <GrandPa mode> I remember when you loaded Win3.1 with 10 floppies and it
> took one half of a day! <GrandPa mode/>
>
> I'd rather it be slow and not blow up the first time than to be faster
> and take a week to recover. Ric
>
>
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