I guess I'll try a fresh load on the old 600 Mhz machine and give it to my 10 year old. Or do you recommend DSL?
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On 11/25/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 15:20 -0500, Wade Hampton wrote:
> 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
Upgrades do take a helluva long time. It's all the dependancy checking,
finding apps to update that are not just core or extras apps, all of the
goings on that hogs up the CPU for incredibly long periods of time. With
an Athlon 64 3200+ and two gigs of memory (almost no swap going on) I
did a fresh install in about 30 minutes. Yeah, I couldn't believe that
myself. Then I went to install KDE and some other goodies and that took
about 4 hours of dnload time. So, overall you didn't do bad.
<GrandPa mode> I remember when you loaded Win3.1 with 10 floppies and it
took one half of a day! <GrandPa mode/>
I'd rather it be slow and not blow up the first time than to be faster
and take a week to recover. Ric
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