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

[Kam Leo]

On 4/25/07, sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:40:52 -0400
> > sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 128MB is pushing it for an update but it will find and use your swap so
> > it ought to be ok. 36 hours on I'd have expected the system to have
> > finished (and if not to be thrashing the disk like a lunatic trying to
> > fit stuff in swap)
> >
> > How much swap does the box have ?
> >
>
> There's a 1 gig swap partition. It's an old Gateway the I
> use without X, just cli, as an internal firewall, dhcp
> server, etc. I'd like to upgrade to keep all the little
> housekeeping settings I've made over the years.
>
> I'm also surprised it's not disk trashing - that's what I
> expected. 36 hours might not be too long to actually install
>   the packages.
>
> But it never even started - no disk access light once the
> Package Installation screen came up.
>
> It there any way to check if anaconda actually finds the
> swap partition ( Which shouldn't be hard - only one disk,
> swap is hda2 )?

What shows on the other console (ctrl-alt-F2)?

> Would installing the fedora-release rpms, and then yum
> upgrade be a better strategy?
>

Definitely, since you won't go through two update cycles, i.e. first
install FC6 over older version and then update newly installed but
stale packages.

> sean