On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DJA wrote:
>
> >
> > I've had the same thing happen in Fedora since at least FC6. It also
> happens during an initial install of Fedora (Anaconda?). Very annoying to
> have to sit and baby sit the damn computer while installing hundreds of
> packages.
> >
> > If you let it alone, it will eventually finish. But that may also be hours
> or days later.
> >
> >
>
> Which is why it took me hours to update this laptop after installing FC8. I
> had to babysit the thing or it would have taken the better part of a day.
> So, I stayed up all night, babysitting and updating.
>
Were you using yumex( GUI) or yum (command-line) for updating? I
found that CLI yum finished the update, from the Live CD image to
current, in 3 hours unattended. About 350 files.
For reasons I don't understand, the download transfer rate averaged
about 30 kB/sec. My cable connection is capable of 800 kB/sec
download from a fast source.
carl
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