Re: Really slow installation

["Chris" <chris asterisk co nz>]

I had this problem on my first installation - it took 38 hours. Since I was
experimenting for the first time, on my own, I thought this was normal for
Linux! I was installing from CD. Eventually I nticed dozens of the same log
message 'lost HDB interrupt'. I bought a new CD rom drive - that fixed it. I
have had problems with those cards - I bet it's the card.

Chris Hegan
From: Tommy Wareing <p0070621 brookes ac uk>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:34 PM
Subject: Really slow installation


> I'm currently installing RH 6.1 on a machine at home.
> The machine in question is a P120, with 48M of ram, and a 3Com 3c590
> (Boomerang) network card.
>
> Since this new machine doesn't have a CD drive in it, I'm doing a
> network installation, from the CD mounted to ~ftp/pub on my main
> machine.
>
> I've done this before, and it's worked fine. The really odd thing now
> is that each package takes 20 minutes to install. Having left it
> overnight, it's installed 34 packages in an elapsed time of
> 11:22:13. That is, the new box asks the server for the RPM (taking a
> second or so), sits there for twenty minutes (without closing the ftp
> connection), and after exactly 20 minutes installs the package, taking
> a second or to do so. Then it continues with the next package.
>
> It seems to be doing the right thing, and it'll finish by tomorrow
> evening :-), but I'm puzzled...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Tommy Wareing
> Too stupid to live
> Too stubborn to die
>
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