I did the same upgrade earlier this week. Mine stayed at the same place for a long time. I suspect that it takes a long time to figure everything out. For that matter, my upgrade went really slow even though I have a 16x CDROM. I think it took over 2.5 hours. On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 23:42 -0400, Philippe A. wrote: > I have FC4 installed and want to upgrade to FC6. I popped a tested FC6 > DVD in the drive and started the install. It stalls at the stage where > package dependencies are examined. The progress bar does not even > change. My hard disk does not even spin.I will try various > workarounds, for ex removing KDE, even though FC6 installer is silent > about that. Anaconda used to be picky about KDE in the past. Is it > still the case? I may also try upgrading to FC5 then to FC6 if its > what it takes. > > Another small problem I have encountered is the following. My fstab > had a very old reference to a swap location that no longer exists. It > also contained a valid swap partition, listed right after. When > Anaconda spotted the invalid swap partition, it popped a clear error > message about that (along the lines of "/dev/hda6 is an invalid > partition"). I was forced to reboot, take that line away and restart. > I think Anaconda is a little lazy when looking for a valid swap > partition, but I am forgiving. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
