On Nov 8, 2007 9:52 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Just save your data and start a new install. It will be much faster. After the initial installation there are still the 3rd party repository packages to install. What joy!
