Kam Leo wrote: > Yes, it does take a long time. My systems have almost every package is > selected for installation. Upgrading just from FC5 to FC6 took about > forever. This is especially apparent when a system has the mimimum > (256MB) amount of recommended memory. You can see the hard drive being > accessed all the time while the DVD drive sits idle. I upgraded and installed FC5-FC6 on the same (450MHz PIII) machine, and did not notice any great difference in time. > IMHO, this is probably due to use of an inefficient algorithm for > processing the packages. Smart package manager had a similar problem > until they changed algorithms. I assumed upgrade and clean install both use yum. Is that incorrect? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
