On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 07:59 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > Hrm, guess I'm gonna have to really really do a good precise timing on > it next time, as I am 2nd guessing myself on how long it really took. One of my last installs, on a 1.6 GHz P4, with 512 megs of RAM, and (I think) I installed by booting the DVD, went like this: 2 minutes - it getting ready to start the installation. 30 minutes - doing the installing. 20 seconds - its post-install setting/cleaning up, then it reboots (it prompts you, first). 1.5 minutes - doing its "first boot". a few moments - me customising things in the first boot process (display, time, etc.). 10 seconds later, I'm logging in to a fully working system. Then I downloaded and installed a few other things. The second step can be a bottleneck. Slow media, hard to read media, slow networking, and other hardware issues can drag that out. And for those doing an update, rather than fresh installs, the preparing to install and install can be very lengthy, as it works out how to upgrade your system, and then goes about replacing things. On my new laptop (1.6 GHz Centrino Duo, 1 gig RAM), my latest install, was booting from the rescue CD to access a USB-connected HDD, with the DVD ISO file on it, did the installation part in 15 minutes. In both those cases, I either went with the defaults, or maybe added about five or so packages, I really can't remember. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
