Edgy to Feisty Upgrade - CD/Time

[Terry Snyder]

On 4/23/07, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
> This afternoon I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my Edgy system
> to Feisty.
>
> I first downloaded & burned the latest alternate i386 iso, verified all
> checksums, verified the CD etc., etc. Then I inserted the CD and
> selected the update option. Every attempt to upgrade from the CD only
> (no network) failed. Check the md5's again, booted & checked the CD that
> way. Burned the CD at different speeds (even at 8x) just to be sure,
> even used the CD to do a fresh install on another system.
>
> So, I finally checked the allow network option & off it goes... Even
> though I had a proper alternate CD, it went ahead and downloaded all
> 600+ MB of updates anyway. 6 hours later it's still "upgrading" and
> shows "About 5 hours 54 minutes remaining. It's not stalled, I can see
> it going through each application etc., and installing. Note: I have a
> DSL link that works just fine at 1.5MB download.
>
> So my question is: how long should it take to do a "upgrade"? 11+ hours
> to "update" a system seems over the top. I seem to recall that going
> from Dapper to Edgy took around 8-10 hours as well. Anyone else notice
> that it takes a *full day* to do an upgrade, or is it just me? Anyone
> successfully perform an upgrade from the alternate CD only?
>
>
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I did my upgrade from the network in about 3 hours download updates
and everything.  I am guessing the CD-ROM upgrade would have to be
about the same unless you have a really slow computer.

My upgrade was on a Pentuim 4m 1.8Ghz system.
-- 
Terry Snyder Jr
Computer Support Specialist
http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215
Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac
Current OS Fedora Core 6.