On 03/19/2010 01:57 PM, John Reiser wrote: >> ... stripped down kickstart server install of about 389 packages: > >> enablefilesystems 3:10s >> postselection 24:27s >> installpackages 14:30s > >> The install spends a long time displaying "Checking dependencies in >> packages selected for installation" with no movement of the progress bar. > >> Interestingly a much larger install set on a laptop took only 1:34s in >> postselection. > > Are you sure that the optical drive on the server is OK? Those times for > postselection (tens of minutes) smell like slow hardware [microcode] > recovery for seek errors. > > Transfer the DVD to a USB2.0 flash memory device, boot the netinstall CD > with extra parameter 'askmethod', choose local harddrive, and select the > flash memory partition as the source of the Fedora 13 tree. Postselection > should take less than one minute. > It's an http install to a local server, and there is no access during that stage (after is has all of the repodata files) until it starts fetching package headers. So, it seems like filing a bug is in order. Anaconda or yum? -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.cora.nwra.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
