F9 installation screenshot

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Apr 29 14:24:20 UTC 2008


Chris Lumens <clumens <at> redhat.com> writes:
> We used to have that, but removed it.  The reason is that our estimates
> are never going to be very good based on all sorts of things like time
> to download packges (in HTTP/FTP cases) and how long it takes to run a
> package's pre/post scriptlet.

In fact, in my experience, the estimates have always been complete nonsense 
(off by a factor of 2 in either direction or things like that) even for fairly 
predictable HDD installs, so IMHO you did the right thing. :-)

        Kevin Kofler




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