Re: anaconda performance thoughts [Re: ANNOUNCE: Severn Test 2Anaconda Updates Image Available]

[Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 18:45, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 19:18, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> > On Sep 29 Michael Fulbright wrote:
> > 
> > >The amount of feedback we've received for the Fedora Core Severn Test 2
> > >has been impressive.  The anaconda team appreciates the time everyone
> > >has taken to test anaconda.
> > 
> > Not strictly related, but I've been thinking for a while now that most 
> > people do CD installs and watch the CD LED flash, then the HDD LED. 
> > This alternating is a bottleneck which I guess can be reduced by either 
> > or both of:
> > 
> 
> do most people install off of cd?
> 
> I wish there was a way to measure that.
> 
> I might be spoiled but I've gotten used to network installs.


Yup, you're spoiled. ;) SO was I. I love NI! However, when I go into
environments to teach classes and need to install a few machines, and
they have a 10MB half-duplex network ... I start breaking out the CDs!


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