On 01/23/2011 05:53 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 00:19 +0000, John Reiser wrote: >> Today I built a DVD with no excluded languages: 3.8GB total DVD size, >> 3150 packages. Graphical Desktop installed the same 1207 packages >> as before: total 3.4GB on ext4, taking the same elapsed time of 22 minutes. > > These are really fantastic data points, thanks for doing this. I was > wondering if you could try the live desktop cd too, just as a point of > comparison, on the same hardware? I really hope DVD is as fast... Finally, a Fedora 15 Live spin that installs: the 22-Feb-2011 edition of http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Alpha.RC1/Live/x86_64/Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso I burned the 570MB to DVD+RW. clock stage ----- ------ 00:00 Install to harddrive... 02:15 Copying from 4X DVD+RW to harddrive 05:02 Checking copied [installed] filesystem 06:55 Congratulations! [done] 1097 packages occupying 2.56GB of ext4; 9.14MB/s average over 280 seconds That's on 2.0GHz Athlon64 to ext4 on SATA 3.0Gbit/s. memtest86+-4.10 reports L1 64K 15705 MB/s L2 512K 3888 MB/s mem 3328M 1819 MB/s DDR1 128-bit On newer hardware the General Desktop install from DVD is 09:08 (mm:ss). That's on 3.0GHz Core2 Duo E8400 memtest86+-4.10 reports L1 32K 42249 MB/s L2 6144K 19606 MB/s mem 8191M 4444 MB/s DDR2 128-bit On a newer AMD box, General Desktop install from DVD is 09:32 (mm:ss). That's on 3.2GHz PhenomII x2 memtest86+-4.10 reports L1 64K 52695 MB/s L2 512K 17007 MB/s L3 6144K 9236 MB/s mem 4095M 3652 MB/s DDR2 128-bit -- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list