On Thu, 12 May 2016 23:22:35 +0100 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:44:47PM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Steve Litt [2016-05-12 22:29]: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > The last several years, with Debian, Lubuntu, Void, and Devuan > > > Alpha, I installed from either a tiny ISO or a network install > > > ISO. Yesterday and today, while installing from the Devuan DVD > > > ISO, I was reminded why I always did this. > > > > > > I started this install last night, and it's still not finished. > > > I've installed Gentoo and Funtoo faster. The whole time, whenever > > > the VM hosted install wasn't waiting for input from me, it was > > > taking over 90% of one of my cores, and slowing my machine's > > > progress. > > > > > > If this thing isn't finished within 2 hours, I'm going to wipe my > > > VM clean and start over with a network install. And I'm never > > > going to install from a full ISO again. > > > > Strange. I installed Devuan from the beta version in a virtual > > machine yeserday, less than one hour. > > Same over here. I have installed several times from netinst in expert > mode under qemu (with kvm enabled) and it works smoothly. A complete > installation of a basic system requires less than one hour in quemu. Same here. I use shellscripts to do the qemu commands. After discovering my rundevuan.sh shellscript was slow installing Ubuntu too, I copied my known-good runlyxbuntu.sh script to rundevuan.sh (after backing it up as rundevuan_slow.sh), changed the ISO and image file and changed drive to d (for cdrom), ran it again, and it's much, much faster. My qemu command had been wrong somehow. The beauty of my situation is that I have the root cause trapped between the working rundevuan.sh and the molasses slow rundevuan_slow.sh, so once I'm installed, I can exploit the differences, slowly changing copies of each until I can make one emulate the other by toggling one factor. I've got this badboy trapped. Meanwhile, after 40 minutes, my DVD-sized install media appears to be about halfway through the install process. So this wasn't about Devuan, and it wasn't about the size of the install ISO. I had a wrong qemu command. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt May 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng