4x lmfao and you wonder why it took so long takes about 22 mins on my machine for full
install
> ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and "stuff"
> ** Original Sender: eryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:59:16 -0600
> ** Original Message follows...
>
> I've installed 7.2 on two different boxes, now (developmental), and both
> installs took 3 HOURS! These boxes are probably minimum, P200mmx with 64M of
> ram and scsi 9 gig drives with 50x ATAPI cdroms. Three hours seems out of
> line for an install on a clean, formatted HD--at least to me. The longest
> 7.1 took was 70 minutes, or so--I was using scsi 4X cd's with those, though.
> Would a scsi CD make that much difference?
>
> So far, kde2 is definitely prettier than its predecessors, and a bit slower
> to load. Apps are somewhat slower to load too (ala Win98)--I guess that's
> the payment for the eye candy. Some stuff is not totally stable, imo. So
> far my crashes have only happened when I CLOSED an app, never while running
> one or while loading one. I get a consistent crash when I close the
> background manager if I choose a background from a source other than kde's
> default sourcefile, and I get the "app has crashed" window when I close any
> Gnome game that I'm running in kde. Minor annoyances, but I don't think I'll
> do any more 7.2 installs until the bugfixes come in the next month or so.
>
> CUPS was kind of a headache for me, but I've got it figured out now. In
> fact, I think I like it, now I've got the StarOffice printing sorted out.
> Like anything new it requires some getting used to.
>
> My one real complaint is the Konquerer network ran really slow copying from
> Windows machines to the 7.2 machines. I don't have a clue why, it was fine
> going from Linux box to Linux box. I installed the LinNeighborhood rpm and
> now both Linux and Windows files copy fast. Anyone know why this happened to
> me? Has it happened to anyone else, and if so, how did you fix it?
>
> Eryl
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