Mario Goebbels wrote:
> Ok, I appear to be done toying around. I've installed it in VirtualBox, 
> worked fine. Also have gotten my new hardware today* and had to reinstall, so 
> put RC2a on it, worked fine, too.
> 
> There was an install bug listed in the blocker bug, where the installer could 
> be help up while finding disks while the CD-ROM does weird activity. Somehow 
> it seems gone from Bugzilla, but I had something like this happen on real 
> hardware. It didn't take too long to continue, though.
> 

1123, closed because it wasn't reproduced.  Re-open if you have new info.

> Other than that, I've just two questions:
> 
> - Starting at 70% install progress, the CD-ROM drive started performing a 
> break dance (i.e. the head moving back and forth _a lot_). What's happening 
> at 70% and beyond?

It's just cpio's during the "transferring" phase.

> - During the installation, applications became a little unresponsive. 
> Redrawing lagged when moving windows, as well as Pidgin, which was running, 
> lagged on keyboard input here and there. The new machine is a quad core. 
> Should this happen?
> 

Well, the installer will keep the kernel pretty busy decompressing 
stuff, so expect it to be less than tremendous responsiveness during 
that process.  How much memory do you have?

Dave
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