Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

[grumpy]

On Saturday 25 November 2006 13:20, Wade Hampton wrote:
> The last couple of days, I upgraded two computers from FC4->FC6 and one
> from FC5->FC6.
> They all took 4-5 hours or more to upgrade.
>
>   AMD 2800, FC4->FC6, via 10T network, took about 4 hours
>   AMD x86_64 3000 desktop, FC4->FC6, images on local hard disk, about 3
> hours
>   AMD x86_64 3200 laptop, FC5->FC6, images on local disk (VFAT), about 20
> hours
>
> Any idea why it is taking so long to perform upgrades.  I have been doing
> RH/Fedodra
> updates for many, many years and have never had delays like this,
> especially how
> long it took to update the laptop.
>
> Also, I have an old 600Mhz computer that I tried to upgrade from FC3->FC6,
> but gave up
> after a few hours.  I am wondering what I should put on that machine (128M
> only,
> maybe fresh install of FC6 or just use Knoppix or DSL?).
DSL rocks on a limited machine I am running DSL on a 486 100 MHZ box with 128 
MG ram ...it's fast
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Wade Hampton