Confession of error...FC6 install time on old K6

[Simon Slater]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:52 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> > Because I had  some difficulty with the full install of  Core 6 the question
> > is what  is the likelihood of a  successful upgrade straight from  Core 3 to
> > Core 6.   So far it  isn't looking that  good.  I booted  up the Core  6 DVD
> > started an  upgrade and things  stopped at the checking  dependencies point.
> > There was no appearance of the progress bar, after 30 minutes, nor did there
> > seem to be any activity on he DVD drive.
> My old K6 test machine took 128 minutes (2 hours plus) to do an install of FC6
> 
> It is probably faster to do a minimal install, and then to do stepwise installs
> of the packages you want.  It, at least, will *seem* to be faster.
> 
> 
> Wolfe
> 
	A with a recent partial install of FC6 on a PII-233/512, after lunch I
put on a long movie. Both the movie and the install finished about the
same time.

	On a PII-400 a full install, I think it took 2 movies...

Simon