The download part was no longer than 30 min. I am not sure how long the entire upgrade took because I left my computer and the upgrade stopped at one part because it needed to ask me a question.

I hate that - I wish someone could come up with a way to either front-load or back-load the prompts that interrupt the install.

The upgrade alone took 3 hours on my laptop, and that ballooned to 5+ from it getting hung up on prompts.

There's a way to do that, but it's mostly useful for deploying a large amount of machines,ie, if you don't use something like cloning machines:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

Interesting. My entire upgrade took 52 minutes, and only had two prompts. Two more than I'd like, but two compared to the 20 someodd I used to get is great.

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