Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
Paul wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, eryl wrote: 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? Ick... that is long. On my PII/350 64Mb machine it only took 45 minutes.. ?? Paul I've installed LM 7.2 on my PIII/585E BXmainboard a few times average install time 20mins for both CDs 880 packages Joseph
Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
Bob Ackerman wrote: [snip] I do have a question. Grub installed on my 1st hard drive, which is Windows 98 (which I need to for work) but I had to recently re-install windows to fix a problem (one of many problems with windows) but it cleared my Grub. I got lilo to install but I want grub back. Any suggestions on how to load it at this point? [snip] Bob./usr/sbin/grub-install -- Alan
Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
I'm not sure why it took that long for your install. It only took me about 38 minutes for a full install using the Alt-E method on the Wal-Mart package with give a person the correct Expert mode menu. What took about 3 hours was all the downloading of KDE2 and other update required for said package. Thank you. Gary A. Garibaldi Linux-Mandrake 7.2 Registered Linux User: 188550 -- 7:30am up 9:20, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.07, 0.55 On Friday 24 November 2000 23:05, you wrote: On Friday 24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! WOW! Now I'm really wondering what went on with my boxes! And whatever it was, they both did the same thing. Anyone else have any insight into this? --
[newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
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
RE: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
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 ** - End Original Message --- ** ]XAN[animalTK
Re: [newbie] 7.2 installs and stuff
On Friday 24 November 2000 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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! WOW! Now I'm really wondering what went on with my boxes! And whatever it was, they both did the same thing. Anyone else have any insight into this?
