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

[James Olin Oden]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, 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.
>
I don't think my company counts (seems like we are always going against 
the grain), but we do install off CDROM.  Course it is the RH 9 set pared
down to 1 CDROM with some custom rpms.  The reason we do this over network
installs is that our customized distro is for servers that we manufacture, 
and so making the manufacturing environment as simple as possible is very
desirable.  Also, we use the CDROM in a disastor recovery scenario, in 
that our kickstart will only blow away "core platform" partitions, and 
leaves application partitions intact.  This allows us to re-install from 
the CDROM in the field without impacting application data...hopefully it 
would not come to that, but its a safe gaurd we put in place.  The main 
reason I mention that is having everything contained to one or two 
CDROM's is quite handy for simplifying manufacturing and disaster recovery
scenarios.   

Cheers...james
> -sv > > 
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