What goes on during 'Starting Install process'

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Oct 30 01:00:38 UTC 2009


Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:10 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> What is going on under the covers while the progress bar for 'Starting 
>> install process.  This may take several minutes'?
>>
>> On my Asus ee 701 it has been going for over an hour and only 3/4 done....
>>     
> ----
> is this an upgrade?  if so, walk away, don't watch because it takes a
> very long time to upgrade.

I am doing an install.  There was nothing of value, well, about 100Mb of 
files that I copied to USB and I want what a clean FC11 would be.

But I did walk away.  I just happened to glance over at it from this 
laptop's screen and saw where it was.  Now it is doing the 1000+ package 
install, and that I know will take a couple hours.

Just what was the setup startup?  The partitions where already formatted.





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