On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 07:52 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote: > > > Hard to say exactly what the problem is, but since FC3 is now 6 > months old you probably have about 10,000 updates to check, which could > take a while. You might benefit by splitting the task up, and using yum > to do your updating. Open up a terminal and try the following: > > 1) become root: > su - > <enter root password when asked> > 2 the yum command: > yum update a\* > the \* tells yum to look at only update packages whose names begin with > a lower case "a" > You can increase the number of packages yum will try to find thus: > yum update \[a-g]\* > which will find all packages beginning with lower case a through g > Anyway I think you get the picture. when done upgrading be sure to close > your root session by either typing exit <return> or pressing ctrl-d. > This will save you from typing dangerous commands. Just run "su --command="yum update" Start it before you go to bed. It will chew on it awhile, but unless there is a network problem - should have everything downloaded by morning. If it does have a problem, it will download what it can.
