Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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.
I used yumex so that I could select the packages I wanted. I also did it
in three stages. The first was when the system initially booted and told
me there were security updates (some 300 of them). This was done using
the FC8 updater. Then I rebooted as a newer kernel was installed.
Second I updated yumex with plugins such as fastest mirror and the
plugin to skip bad packages (so it wouldn't stop in the middle of a big
update).
The last was the big 850+ package install. This is where I actually
spent some time selecting the stuff I wanted - like development
libraries and source - and sent it grinding away to install it all.
My connection is fast as well, but the D/L speeds varied and never got
even close to the full bandwidth I have (but I don't think it ever got
down to the 30kB/sec range).
PGA
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