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Re: Athena 8.4/Red Hat 6.2 Beta installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Oct 13 22:44:41 2000
Message-Id: <200010140244.WAA04868@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:25:49 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:44:36 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> As for the install speed, on further review it looks like the speed of
> the machine I'm installing the software on is a significant factor.
> I've done a couple of installs on 100 MHz Pentiums (hey, it's what
> we've got around), and on them it takes about two hours. However,
> on my 300 MHz Pentium II, things went much faster. Regardless,
> it can't hurt to have a speedy machine for the server and, perhaps
> more importantly, a good network connection--100 MB/s if possible.
That's interesting to know. The graphical widgets were miserably sluggish
on one of my machines, but I haven't tried it on a particulairly fast
machine, so I have comparison point.
Did you consider trying the text mode installer? It should get you to the
same end result as the graphical one, and hopefully it'll do so faster.
If you type 'text' instead of hitting enter, at the very first screen
the installer gives you, it should use text mode all the way through.
I'm unsure if we should be recommending text mode more heavily, or even
of how to document it in the one-sheet guide (I don't want to overwhelm
the reader with options). I prefer it, and many of the people I've
talked to prefer it, but there's a general feeling that the graphical
mode gives a better first impression of linux.
You're probably right about us being network limited at the server end;
I think that many of the issues there are out of our control.
-Camilla
