sean <seandarcy2@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Upgrading to FC6, off a hard disk partition. Text install goes without > error, until the Package Installation screen appears. There's a popup: > > "starting install process. This may take several minutes..." > > That was 36 hours ago! > > No disk access lights flashing. > > This is a slow old machine 400mz, 128meg ram, but it runs fc5. > > Any suggestions? Move the disk to a more modern machine, do a clean install there. Update to current pkgs via yum update, then move the disk back to that old system. This is what I had to do when I installed FC6 onto a very old PPRO-150 w. 128Meg dram. The machine was way too old to be able to boot off of a CDROM, DVD or USB flash stick. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
