FC4 to FC5 upgrade slow
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Wed Oct 18 18:01:10 UTC 2006
Mark Haney wrote:
> Has anyone seen an upgrade (using CDs) from FC4 to FC5 just crawl? I did an
> upgrade on Monday this week from FC2 to FC4 and it went great. I rebooted the
> server and tested and am upgrading that box to FC5, but it's been going since
> about 10am this morning, I'm still on disc one and it's saying the upgrade will
> take over 600 minutes.
>
> Ideas?
That's slow, but depending on the speed of the computer, it's not
unexpectedly slow. The FC5 installer uses yum to install RPMs, which is
rather more careful / slower than the previous installers.
It should speed up in future releases of Fedora, as the yum engine gets
more performance attention.
James.
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