On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Oden Eriksson wrote: > On Wednesdayen den 24 October 2001 08.52, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > > > 1 When I install a test Cooker, 1.9 GB, from a hd.img it takes > > > > about > > > > > 30 > > > min, a rh7.2, 1.7 GB, from my CDRW HP 9150 => 32, takes 11 min. I > > > > think > > > > > this is because rh has a better way of using my harddrive, an IBM 7200 > > > rpm UDMA 100, but my mobo can only drive it at UDMA 66. I have used no > > > manual change of hdparm, for testing = from the installer. > > > > The same partitioning and file system types? > > Try to compare rpm performance between RH and Mandrake, "time rpm -e > the_common_rpm_package", and you'll probably find that RH:s rpm binary is > "faster". > > I tried to "rpm -e sendmail" on an old RH5.2 and it took about 0,000001 > seconds, on ML8.1 it takes several seconds. > > This could be why you experience install time difference.
Could it be that your stock mandrake 8.1 has several handred more packages than rh 5.2 ? The bigger the RPM db, the slower it will get.
