On Monday 09 Jun 2003 11:30 am, Cody Harris wrote: > At 05:50 PM 6/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >quoting Cody Harris's missive of Sunday 08 June 2003 02:10 pm: > ><snip> > > > > > It took 4 hours to install MDK 8.1, and 60 mins for Windoze. > > > >That must have included the time required to figure out what the > > hell all of those packages were in the "individual package > > selection" type install, then deciding which ones you wanted. > > Granted it is a *really long* list but.... > > It only took me like 10 mins at the MOST. If that. > > >This box is only a Pentium 3 500 MHz and it did _not_ take that > > long to do a *network* install of 9.1 from a network.img floppy. > > (This entails downloading and installing from a mirror. No CDs > > involved) From scratch! On a totally new unformatted hard drive. > > :-) That took just over an hour over my cable modem. Minimal > > install, just internet and multi-media workstation, and then > > added packages after (Open Office, games, xscreensavers, Texstars > > KDE packages, a few others); maybe another 30 to 40 minutes. > > > >What were you doing for the other (roughly) 3 hours? Installing > > Windows in your sleep? <g> > > Installing Linux. The biggest % was installing the packages. It > took A LONG time. 200 MHz 32 MB. I used the CDs. > That really is odd. I installed 9.0 on a really ancient AMD board (around 5 years old) in around 45 minutes. It has a 400 processor and 128 MB ram - nothing specially good and a lot that's not good. It's very slow doing some things, but it works.
Can't imagine what took so long. Anne
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