slow FC4 to FC5 upgrade

[Jim Cornette]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:28 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Was the nodma option used because of mediacheck issues? Turning off
>> dma like that will kill hard disk performance as well as CD
>> performance.
> 
> I am curious as to why DMA might foul up mediacheck or installations,
> but be okay once you have an installed system?  I also wonder if, given
> the long time involved, it'd be better to first do a mediacheck, then
> reboot with DMA for the installation?
> 


Rebooting after the mediacheck and not inserting ide=nodma would give 
you faster installations. I use that method myself if the media needs 
nodma for checking the discs. I had successful installs with tht method 
also.

Jim