->fc6: Pkg Installation - "may take several minutes" - 36 hours later!!

[sean]

Upgrading to FC6, off a hard disk partition. Text install 
goes without error, until the Package Installation screen 
appears. There's a popup:

"starting install process. This may take several minutes..."

That was 36 hours ago!

No disk access lights flashing.

This is a slow old machine 400mz, 128meg ram, but it runs fc5.

Any suggestions?

sean