Re: [Rule-list] Modifying the current anaconda--progress update

[Marco Fioretti]

Forrest,

any news on this?

        Ciao,
                Marco

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 09:34:15 at 09:34:15AM -0800, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> Well, I am still waiting for the installer to complete.
> 
> For those who haven't been following my work on the enigma-list (Red Hat), I
> tried to simply change the code in anaconda allowing for 8000K RAM instead
> of the default 17000K.  I tried removing packages until it fit on one disc,
> and used 'linux mem=16M'.  The install took over three hours on a PIII
> 500MHz [1153MB of total packages].  I tried the standard two-disc set, with
> the modified anaconda, and I am awaiting the results.
> 
> It doesn't look too promising, as it has been 20 hours, and it still hasn't
> started installing packages.  It now has the Processing [Preparing to
> install...] screen, but the progress bar has not started.
> 
> Once (if) this finishes, I will try one further test with this disc-set.  I
> want to select minimal packages [currently I have selected 1739 MB of total
> packages], and see if that is any faster.
> 
> I will keep you all updated.
> 
> Forrest
> 
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