Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-13 Thread John Reiser
> I suspect the use case is 'test every version of OS/distro that comes > down the pipe'... if that's your goal, your choices are: > > 1) virt > 2) LVM (note: Linux only) > 3) pile'o'partitions > > For those that can't do #2, and don't feel like doing #1... Yes. Customers want to do _their own_

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Mike Chambers (m...@mtchambers.com) said: > But I in no way have a reason to have more than 1 linux system, and 1 > windows system on 2 HD's. What in the hell do you use all those OS's > for and do you *really* need/use them? Or do you offer those for > commercial use or something? Just curious

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/12/2012 08:23 PM, David Lehman wrote: I just created 15 partitions on an msdos-labeled disk using the F18 installer, so let's put that one to rest, shall we? I don't know when you filed this bug or the details of it, but I can tell you that anaconda has no artificial limits on the number of

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-12 Thread David Lehman
On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 11:06 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 11/11/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:09 PM, John Reiser wrote: > > > >>> 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an > >>> inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users th

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:12:52AM -0800, John Wendel wrote: > >I understand you just wanted to rant, but I figured you should > >know that the costs of maintaining them in sqlite was significant, > >in bdb was mystical and in anything else was simply a dependency > >nightmare. > Want a lightweight

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-12 Thread John Wendel
On 11/11/2012 09:42 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, John Reiser wrote: I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait a Fedora 18 install takes. If you have many partit

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, drago01 wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, John Reiser wrote: I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait a Fedora 18 install takes. If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system probe

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread John Reiser
On 11/10/2012 08:15 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > That's fine and interesting, but we switched to grub2 in F16. The original > poster was comparing F18 to F16, and I compared F18 to F17 and found F18 > slower. grub2 vs. grub1 cannot logically explain differences between releases > from F16 onward

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-11-11 11:39 (GMT+0100) Chris Murphy composed: John Reiser wrote: 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some will actually try it." 45 partitions across 4 drives in one box,

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread Mike Chambers
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 11:09 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an > > inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me > > button, some will actually try it." > > 45 partitions across 4 drives in one box, 40 partit

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/11/2012 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:09 PM, John Reiser wrote: 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some will actually try it." 45 partitions across 4 d

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 10, 2012, at 8:09 PM, John Reiser wrote: >> 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside >> joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some >> will actually try it." > > 45 partitions across 4 drives in one box, 40 partitions a

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-11 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:42 PM, John Reiser wrote: >>> I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only >>> a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait >>> a Fedora 18 install takes. > > If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober > takes a while to construc

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On 2012-11-10 7:42, John Reiser wrote: I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait a Fedora 18 install takes. If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober takes a while to construct grub.cfg: more than half a

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread John Reiser
>> If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober >> takes a while to construct grub.cfg: more than half a minute for my >> three dozen partitions. This is new with grub2 instead of grub. > Is there a bug for this? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875356 -- --

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread John Reiser
> 36 partitions? Really? I thought GPT's 128+ partitions is actually an inside > joke, ergo "you know if we give users this particular hurt me button, some > will actually try it." 45 partitions across 4 drives in one box, 40 partitions across 4 drives in another. Several OS, several distros, m

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Nov 10, 2012, at 4:42 PM, John Reiser wrote: >>> I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only >>> a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait >>> a Fedora 18 install takes. > > If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober > takes a while to construct

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 07:42:51AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober > takes a while to construct grub.cfg: more than half a minute for my > three dozen partitions. This is new with grub2 instead of grub. Is there a bug for this? --

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-10 Thread John Reiser
>> I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only >> a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait >> a Fedora 18 install takes. If you have many partitions, then the grub2 operating system prober takes a while to construct grub.cfg: more than half a minute for my three dozen partit

Re: post install very slooow

2012-11-09 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 16:30 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Somehow Anaconda managed to mess up the partition > table on a different disk, so I had to reinstall a Fedora 16 > to get Windows et al back. > > I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only > a few seconds, not t

post install very slooow

2012-11-09 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Somehow Anaconda managed to mess up the partition table on a different disk, so I had to reinstall a Fedora 16 to get Windows et al back. I noticed the post install processing in f16 lasted only a few seconds, not the seemingly interminable wait a Fedora 18 install takes. Is this some sort of re