Much Challenge Getting F7 Installed

tom tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Sat Jun 9 04:36:09 UTC 2007


On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Kam Leo wrote:

> On 6/8/07, Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>> Warning - my bad, but replies to replies scattered
>> throughout, not concentrated at the end.
>> 
>> On 06/08/2007 11:27:35 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
>> > tom wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well, its been fun so far... NOT! I'd post a bug report,
>> >> but I don't think I can offer enough details to make it
>> >> worth the engineer's time to fool with. Perhaps bitching
>> >> here can improve my report to make it worth while.
>> >>
<<snip for brevity>>
>> >>
>> >> The first attempt, I went for an update rather than a
>> >> full install, using the full graphical installer. Things
>> >> went very well until installing the eighth package,
>> >> where it hit a wall and just sat there. I examined the
>> >> four virtual consoles and didn't find any obvious error
>> >> conditions, so what ever hit me, didn't lock up the
>> >> console.
>> >
>> > Okay, update from what to F7?  Anything other than FC6
>> > might cause that very problem, it's probably yum sitting
>> > there taking its pretty time, I've seen it happen before.
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you. I was afraid I'd omit that detail. The upgrade
>> was from FC6. As for yum sitting there taking it's own
>> sweet time, I claim a sitting time of 30 minutes hung/flat
>> against the wall/broken. Lacking a good error message that
>> is my personal standard, but I don't claim it to be the
>> correct one. YMMV of course.
<<snip again>> 
>> 
>
> Upgrades take lots of time especially with mininimum recommended RAM
> (256MB)installed. Think 10+ hours if you had "everything" or its
> equivalent installed. Try a clean install instead.
>
>

Ding! Ouch. I had thought I gave enough time to be sure things were not 
just thinking hard, but your comment might suggest otherwise. Oh well. 
Life is an adventure.




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