On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:59 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:51:14 +1030 > Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In the dim and distant past, I'd tried upgrades, and spent ages ironing > > out the bugs. Later, I did fresh installs, and spent a much lesser > > amount of time customising the new install. Apart from the time, this > > seemed to be the differences: One is just re-configuring, the other is > > sorting out all the problems that aren't handled by the update process. > > It looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and install from scratch if > I want to put F8 on this computer. > > I fired up the update process again last night just before 2am. It's now > almost 11am the following day and the screen was still at the exact same place > that it got to on "resolving dependencies" when I left it last night. ---- Personally, I have faith that it would probably continue on and finish if left alone. Craig