Bill Nottingham wrote:
John Summerfield (debian herakles homelinux org) said:If it's not essential for getting the install/upgrade done, _this_ user doesn't want it.To be more like the 'normal' installed system. Heck, if DRI's going to fail, the system's just going to blow up on the first boot anyway. Furthermore, there are cards/chips that do 2D accel via the 3D pipeline.Please read the last sentence again, then. Unless you want to force everything through vesa (which can make it slower...)
I commonly use vesa drivers. I don't do high-performance graphics work at all, and I never thought of Anaconda as being demanding of graphics. When it was being slow, I didn't think it was doing much graphics at all, and the progress bars seem to zip along at a satisfying rate when small packages are being installed.
I think Tracy's right, the bottleneck is disk and network I/o, and I'd suggest more of the former, taking into account swap activity when there's too little RAM.
Swap and/or rpm databases, see my very recent post "F9beta updates takes forever" on fedora-test.
Something over two hours applying about 500 Mbytes of updated rpms on a system sporting Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU and a new SATA drive.
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