Time required in installation of Fedora Core 3

[Rick Stevens]

Jon Savage wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:55:01 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello!
>>
>>How much time would it take when perform a fresh install in Fedora Core 3 ?
>>
>>I mean I need to delete the old Fedora Core 2 partition and install.
> 
> So far I've installed FC3 on 3 slowish laptops (PIII 600) each took
> around 30 minutes to complete  from inserting CD 1 to firstboot. The
> faster desktop (2.4 GHz) took a little less time, just under 23
> minutes. Add a good 15-20 minutes to that figure if you need to do
> mediacheck on the install discs. This was for a workstation install w/
> some stuff deselected.
> Another 5 minutes or so to set up wireless, 30-60 minutes to get
> updates. YMMV, I've gotten *very* acccustomed to
> installing/configuring my machines w/ fedora since I typically run
> current release on 2 laptops & the desktop machine and do the test
> releses on the remaining laptop- (that means somewhere in the
> neighborhood of 14 or so installs a year with the current release
> cycle, more if the test machine gets hosed).

The installation time is partially based on CPU speed, but mostly on
CD-ROM and hard drive speed and RAM size.  More RAM or faster hard
drives speed up the process.
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