F12 installation stalled

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Nov 27 17:38:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:16:36 -0600,
  "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage at peaknet.net> wrote:
> Trying to do a "darned near Everything" 32-bit installation on an old
> Thinkpad A22p with 1GHz P-III/M and 512MB. Several hours in things
> appeared to stall during the wesnoth-data RPM. I'm still seeing a fairly
> steady disk activity light, but I suspect there may be a spanner in the
> spokes. Switching to the F2 console, df shows no changes in disk space
> used/available for the past 6+ hours.

wesnoth-data is relatively large; it might just be that a lot of disk I/O
is needed to complete installation of that package. Did any of the other
games with large data sets (e.g. alienarena, warzone2100, nexuiz, tremulous,
etc.) get installed yet? If so did they install much quicker?




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