long wait...

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 8, 2007 9:52 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:10:13 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> > Frank Cox wrote:
> > > I tried updating this computer from F7 to F8 earlier today.  I booted it off a
> > > CDR, pointed it to the DVD image on my fileserver, and let 'er rip.  It got to
> > > about the 26% mark on "resolving dependencies" that others have mentioned, and
> > > then sat. And sat. I saw a bit of network activity and a bit of hard drive
> > > activity once in a while so it wasn't hung up.
> > >
> >
> > Computer specs?
>
> 3GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2 GB of ram.
>
> > My laptop (Celeron [0M>] 1.5 Ghz, 256 Mbytes) took a good 12 hours to go
> > from FC3 to FC5.
>
> It took a while for this machine to update itself from FC6 to F7 as well -- it
> sat at that "resolving dependencies" screen for quite a while.  But not three
> hours.
>

Just save your data and start a new install. It will be much faster.
After the initial installation there are still the 3rd party
repository packages to install. What joy!