Wound up stuck at the Caffe for almost 3 hours as my supposedly minimal Fedora 10 install churned on my non-suspend-capable laptop.  Turns out that you have to deselect *every* checkbox in the Fedora 10 installer to get a minimal install, even things like system tools, text-editors and the like.  The google key word to figure that out appears to be "minimal", rather than "server".  Fresh re-install this afternoon finished in < 30 minutes with the more properly "minimal" package-set.