Slooooow installation FC4t3

[Billy Tallis]

On 5/18/05, Patrick <patrickm at myway.com> wrote:
> 
> When installing FC4t3 on my laptop (HP OmniBook XE2, 64MB ram, PIII 333mhz) through NFS, I noticed how sloooooow it was installing.
> 
> I know the laptop isn't a fancy machine, but FC3 did the whole thing in less than 1/3 of time FC4t3 is taking ?!?!?
> 
> Hopefully, FC4 will be quicker...
> 
> The only thing during install that was as quick as "normal" was package selection. As was the actual installation.
> 

So selecting packages and the installing of them were at reasonable
speed, but configuring things was slow? With the amount of ram you
have, I am assuming that you were using the text mode installer. The
only thing I can suggest is to do an install from cds next time, or
use slinky from www.rule-project.org/download , as it is designed for
low memory systems. Hopefully the homepage will be back up soon and
slinky can be updated for FC4. It sounds like anaconda was too slow
fetching the next step over nfs, but I thought that it keeps the whole
installer in RAM. It could be that anaconda has just bloated more
since FC3.