Oops! I just reread your question and I realise that I misunderstood
it the first time. My apologies :-)
A six-hour wait is not normal at all. You should be able to check
through an RPM programme like gnoRPM or Kpackage, or from the command
line (rpm), if your files have been installed. Just look up the
package name and ensure it is the updated version.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:26, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Upgrading 7.2 to 8.0 is not really a recommended exercise, despite
> it being an installation option. This is because there have been
> many changes made between 7.2 and 8.0, so an upgrade is quite likely
> to break something. Upgrading also takes far longer, since your
> system must be analysed to see *how* it can be upgraded -- something
> that doesn't need to be done with a clean installation.
>
> If everything appears fine afterwards, then you should have nothing
> to worry about. If you go to a console screen (press ctrl+alt+F1),
> you should see the version number of your Mandrake displayed on the
> screen.
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:11, Gunner Carstens wrote:
> > I have tried to do some mandrake update for the first time and
> > have experienced this (upgrading MR7.2):
> > 1)getting ftp servers goes fine
> > 2)getting list of updates goes fine
> > 3) downloading files goes fine
> > 3) preparing for install goes vvery slow
> > 4) installing freeses everything, takes very long time (6 hrs for
> > 10 update items - 15 MB of downloaddata) monitor goes completely
> > black, at the end.
> >
> > 5) After reboot everything seems fine and (pehaps) I have been
> > successfully updated !?
> >
> > I would just ask if this is normal procedure for mandrake update
> > service to go like this, or I have to do it otherwise (I do it
> > like the tutorial on the mandrake.com site.
> > thanks gunner
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Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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