Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi. On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:04:20 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:I'm testing a text mode PXE/NFS install of the latest Fedora on an old PIII with 320MB RAM. So far the install as been running for over 14 hours. System is swapping and this is slowing things down.That seems quite excessive to me. How many packages do you install? My basic xen-vm-installs (on a PIII-500, 96MB RAM, 128MB Swap, text mode) take roughly half an hour for RHEL5. That's for 500-600 MB of packages.
This is fedora rawhide. Previous versions work fine. I'm installing around 1000 packages.
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