test 3 installation comments/questions
Gene C.
czar at czarc.net
Tue Oct 14 12:56:16 UTC 2003
I have done/am doing a couple of nfs installs (one using the iso images and
one with the tree). Both seem to be going well and worked as expected.
Some comments/questions concerning the Installing packages panel (I am not
sure of the intent so I am not sure that any bugs exist).
1. The "Remaining time" does not change very frequently (15->8->6->4->2) and
thus gives little feedback comfort.
2. If Remaining time is displayed, then Elapsed time should also be
displayed.
3. Interesting that for an nfs install of a vmware guest, the remaining time
proved to be fairly accurate (15 minute estimate and it took about 15 - 20
minutes). This is a significant change.
4. The is no package count display (total, installed, remaining). I believe
that this would be more useful than the remaining time estimate.
5. Doing an nfs everything install across a 100M LAN, there was no initial
"Remaining time" ... then one appeared: 20 minutes ... ten minutes pass, it
is still 30 minutes with the progress bar indicated half done ... 3 minutes
pass and it not reads 25 minutes with the progress bar about 55% complete.
I understand that some feedback is very desireable so that the user knows that
the install hasn't gone off in the weeds but the current display could be
better ... I believe that package counts would be better. On the other hand,
this is not really a big deal and I can certainly live with the existing
design.
--
Gene
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