Install hung- how's my old system?

[Robert Hodgins]

On Thu, 2007-18-10 at 21:43 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I'm installing Gutsy over Feisty, not upgrading. However, the system
> has been stuck on 82% ("Configuring apt. Scanning the mirror...") for
> over an hour now. Should I continue to be patient? Can I jump start it
> somehow? How will my old system be if I interrupt it at this stage?

The book, Hacking Ubuntu, by Neal Krawetz, says that upgrades can take
3X longer than a clean install. As an example, he wrote that a 550MHz
machine took less than 30 minutes for a network (clean) install but just
less than 4 hours for an upgrade.

As well, IIRC, if you have "non-repository" stuff in there, the upgrade
will take longer.

Interrupting things now might not be a good idea. You'd have a Gutsy
Fawn (or some such.) If you are impatient, restart doing a clean
install.

(You did back up /home first, right?)

Rob