On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:00:03 +0000 Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It would take forever to get to the install, and then wouldn't get to the graphical install at all- I waited for hours but no go. I tried text mode. It was about the same thing, performance-wise. It takes about ten minutes to get to the first screen that asks you if you want to do a text installation or a graphical installation and everything else seems to run at the same snail's pace regardless of which option you pick. > In text mode at least I wasn't waiting for the graphical install to never start... Once in text mode however, it took the usual time to install. Well, this is running. Or walking... maybe crawling. I'm up to "311 of 1419 packages completed" now, after about three hours. So it's getting there; should be done by morning, I suppose. I've installed Fedora 8/x86_64 on an Intel Core 2 laptop back just before Christmas and it rattled right along, which is what makes this such an unexpected surprise. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
