2008/10/31 H. S. Rai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yesterday night, at about 11:30, started to upgrade Ubuntu from 8.04 > LTS to 8.10 on my laptop using campus WiFi network. At about 12:00 > night, "Getting new packages" started with message, it will take 7 > hours. I went to bed with hope, Ubuntu will be upgraded by morning. > Next morning it shows message, it will take 2 days more. The message > was changing, one day, two day, 10 hours and like that.
I did upgrade to beta a few days ago. It took ~5 hours with my 512 DSL connection. May be after final release mirrors are busy? > Anyway, by 2:00 p.m. fetching of packages was over, again it mentioned > "Installation" will take 8 hours, which I was sure it will not take > more than 2 hours. This demand your attentions, to give your decision > on replacing configuration files, so remain near your PC or Laptop. > But estimate by Ubuntu was correct.At 09:35 p.m. laptop rebooted. Hmmmm why is this taking so long? No downloads involved and only local configuration and would be happening. What mirror you were using? -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: I know most of people do not follow email niceties (mostly they are not aware) but if you follow bottom post/in-line post style of email conversations it becomes a whole lot easier to carry on meaningful dialogue and you can snip out what is not meaningful too. Most people just hit reply button and top post leaving prior message appended uselessly at bottom. See if you can adopt this style and persuade others. In case you are already doing this ..... great, spread the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
