Re: Upgrade to FC6 takes very, very long time

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How about loading Xenix on a Tandy 6000 using a 8" floppy or loading Xenix on a 386 using a few 5.25" disks.... I deployed Xenix systems over 20 years ago that used a full 32-bit Microsoft compiler and had uptimes measured in months while my friends were doing 8 and 16-bit stuff on DOS.....  SCO Xenix rocked (that was the OLD SCO).  I could load the system and application in 30 minutes or less from 3-4 disks.  Slackware  also loaded quite well from floppy with a 0.99 kernel....

I have NEVER had a Xenix/Unix/Linux install or upgrade that took over a few hours, much less well over 12 hours, until I upgraded my laptop last night.  Me thinks something be broke.

Cheers,
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W


On 11/25/06, grumpy <grumpypenguin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:56, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:47 -0700, grumpy wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:35, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 16:40 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > > <GrandPa mode> I remember when you loaded Win3.1 with 10 floppies and
> > > > it took one half of a day! <GrandPa mode/>
> > >
> > > ----
> > > not that this is important but Win3.1 was only 3 floppies as I recall
> > > and another 3 for DOS 6.x
> > >
> > > It was Win95 that was 10 floppies plus another 4 or 5 for Internet
> > > Explorer and I seem to recall it taking about 4 hours - half a work
> > > day  ;-)
> > >
> > > Using the Stones 'Start Me Up' was great marketing however.
> >
> > of course you remember the 2nd line of that song
>
> ----
> I'll never stop
>
> I'm presuming you are referring to 'you make a grown man cry'
>
> by the way...your usage of 'micro$ux' pretty much weakens any point that
> you try to make.
Comeon you know that it does ;-)
>
> Craig

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