On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:10:13 +0900 John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > I tried updating this computer from F7 to F8 earlier today. I booted it off a > > CDR, pointed it to the DVD image on my fileserver, and let 'er rip. It got to > > about the 26% mark on "resolving dependencies" that others have mentioned, and > > then sat. And sat. I saw a bit of network activity and a bit of hard drive > > activity once in a while so it wasn't hung up. > > > > Computer specs? 3GHz Intel Pentium 4, 2 GB of ram. > My laptop (Celeron [0M>] 1.5 Ghz, 256 Mbytes) took a good 12 hours to go > from FC3 to FC5. It took a while for this machine to update itself from FC6 to F7 as well -- it sat at that "resolving dependencies" screen for quite a while. But not three hours. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
