On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:52 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote: > > Because I had some difficulty with the full install of Core 6 the question > > is what is the likelihood of a successful upgrade straight from Core 3 to > > Core 6. So far it isn't looking that good. I booted up the Core 6 DVD > > started an upgrade and things stopped at the checking dependencies point. > > There was no appearance of the progress bar, after 30 minutes, nor did there > > seem to be any activity on he DVD drive. > My old K6 test machine took 128 minutes (2 hours plus) to do an install of FC6 > > It is probably faster to do a minimal install, and then to do stepwise installs > of the packages you want. It, at least, will *seem* to be faster. > > > Wolfe > A with a recent partial install of FC6 on a PII-233/512, after lunch I put on a long movie. Both the movie and the install finished about the same time. On a PII-400 a full install, I think it took 2 movies... Simon
