Re: Time needed for HTTP or FTP install over 56K ?

[paul almquist <rhlist unixguy chippewa tec wi us>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 07:42:06AM -0600, Johnny wrote:
> I've installed redhat 'off cdroms' since the 4.2 version 
> but 
> have never tried   ftp or http   type installation.
> 
> Can someone tell me the  approximate amount of time required 
> to install  'everything'  as if I was doing it off the cdrom ? 
> 
> Any suggestions regarding this process would be appreciated.
> 
I have done numerous FTP and NFS installs over a 10 Mbps
ethernet LAN.  FTP installs seem a bit quicker than NFS.
Time for a full install is about 45 min to 1 hour  depending
on total LAN traffic.

I downloaded most of RHL 6.0 from the net over our T1 connection
in several different sessions so I don't know how long that took.
I then put it on both an NFS server and FTP server--2 different
low end HPUX boxes.  In my lab I was installing on 4-8 machines
at a time from NFS server.  A custom install of about 400 MB
was running about 10 minutes to copy software with remaining
install tasks of about 5 minutes or so.

paul
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