I have done installation of 6.0 and 6.1 on PII-350 with 64MB Ram and for
workstation mode, it took not more than 20 minutes.
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From: Pete Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 08:45
Subject: Different Question on RH 6.x Installers
>
> With Redhat 5.0 and 5.2 (I never installed 5.1), I used to demonstrate to
> people who feared Unix installations how easy and fast it was to install
> RedHat Linux. We had a P133 machine lying around and I would show people
> that after a few initial steps, the simple "workstation" install would
then
> take about 15-20 minutes even on such a slow machine, much easier and
> quicker than an NT install.
>
> When 6.0 came along, I did an "upgrade" on that same machine (again taking
> the "workstation" defaults) and it took well over an hour --- I think it
> was close to TWO hours. I suspected that may have been due to the extra
> checks and other manipulations needed for "upgrading", so I tried doing an
> "install" instead of an upgrade -- it STILL took about the same amount of
> time. When 6.1 came along, the installation was still worse. Admittedly
> the default workstation installation installed more items in 6.x compared
> to 5.x, but that difference wouldn't come close to explaining the time
> difference. Last week, I did a 6.1 trial install (workstation again) on a
> 600 Mhz Intel PIII machine. I left before it finished, but it had run for
> over an hour before I left.
>
> Can anyone explain why the installation time has soared so much? Is this
> related to "anaconda"? Would it be faster to do a bare bones minimum
> custom install and then just feed a list to rpm to do the rest? Is the
> problem really with RPM?
>
> The "workstation" and "server" configurations aren't all that useful to
> me, but they seem like reasonable things for people who have never
> installed Linux before, so I used them as demos to show people how
> easy and quick the installation process could be (at least in 5.x).
>
> Another question -- the selection of items for custom install seems to
> be more painful than it used to be. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I
> remember custom installs being easier in earlier versions.
>
> I went through several custom installs on one machine before finding out
> there was a hardware problem on the machine. One thing that would be
> very nice to have would be the opportunity to save the selected
> configuration to a floppy before actually starting the install. In
> that way, if I had to do the install again or do a similar install on
> another machine, I could save lots of effort by starting with defaults
> being the previously saved configuration.
>
> Another thing that would be helpful would be to allow use of fdisk in
> all installation modes -- or an option in Disk Druid to escape to fdisk.
> It seems like dealing with Disk Druid is always a struggle and fdisk
> is much simpler and does what you ask it to do.
>
>
> pete peterson
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