This is a pretty busy server which has been long overdue on FC4. The boot-DVD was thoroughly checked out and worked OK, finding and offering to upgrade the FC4 with mounts correctly found too. It got through "Finding packages to upgrade" fairly fast then plodded through "Finding dependencies" at about 1% per second up to 30% where it stopped dead for over an hour (twice) so I had to give up. The second attempt was with non-X anaconda - exactly the same symptoms. There was no clue on the logging screen (Alt-F3) but when I ran top in Alt-F2,(sadly only the Busybox version) anaconda was running variably. I'm rather proud of the dump below, OCR'ed from my camera shot of the monitor because although I'd booted off a USB-DVD (only CD built-in) I couldn't get a USB pen mounted. This is probably something specific to this server (it has a RAID driver issue) but I wonder if anyone here has seen similar? Should I wait for (many) more hours? Mem 440440K used 1634680K free, 0K shrd, 12976K buff, 151792K cached Load average 1.36 1.25 1.95 PID USER STATUS USZ PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND 981 0 RW 223M 473 24.8 18.9 anaconda 981 0 RW 2856 753 0.0 0.1 top 982 0 SW 36396 981 0.0 1.7 anaconda 979 0 SW 26284 1 0.0 1.2 anaconda 974 0 SW 26276 1 0.0 1.2 anaconda 966 0 SW 26272 1 0.0 1.2 anaconda 988 0 SW 3764 473 0.0 0.1 hotplug 473 0 SW 3756 1 0.0 0.1 loader 753 0 SW 2624 473 0.0 0.1 sh 1 0 SW 732 0 0.0 0.0 init 172 0 SW 732 1 0.0 0.0 init 735 0 SW< 0 2 0.0 0.0 usb~storage 250 0 SW< 0 2 0.0 0.0 kswapd0 13 0 SW< 0 2 0.0 0.0 ksoftirqd/3 7 0 SW< 0 2 0.0 0.0 ksoftirqd/1 -- Have fun, Mike Yates -- Frome Somerset England -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list