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

["G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw wolves durham nc us>]

> 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