New F9 EeePC problem

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	This may or may not have something to do with the infrastructure 
problems. It happened during them.

	Having installed F9 on an EeePC 701, I did some removals with 
gnome-packagekit, then plugged in a USB CD/DVD drive, and started copying 
a bunch of data from my PCs.

	Of course I soon hit a point where the poor little thing wouldn't 
take any more. 

	I fired up the packagekit again, picked a bunch of stuff for it 
to uninstall, and hit Apply. It hung. Overnight.

	I force-closed it, and went to cutting away things I had added, 
by moving them to the trash -- all the time watching the cumulative sizes 
by scanning and re-scanning /home with baobab. I got it down to where, by 
those scans, I was using about half its 8 GB. (I have a camera card in it 
-- couldn't even install F9 when I tried without.)

	I *think* the package kit removed some things before it hung, but 
don't know which nor how many.

	Finally, last night, I had occasion to shut it down. I've been in 
process of trying to get it to boot for the past hour or so -- without 
rhgb. It seems not to be hung, exactly; every once in a great while, the 
normal boot messages go forward another line, then sit there ...

	I'd hate to just re-install from scratch -- repeating all the 
things I've changed would be a week's work. Is there a better way?

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