On 10/11/2010 03:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Some of the things [Ubuntu 10.10 installer] does which are IMHO better: > > - starts disk formatting / copying / installing in parallel > with asking user questions > > - downloads updates in parallel too What was the wall-clock duration from "Go!" to done? Should be about 140 seconds for a 32X CD-ROM: (700MB / 5MB/s). {Fetch_from_media_or_download, and uncompress_package_to_pieces_in_RAMfs} parallelizes almost perfectly with package install, even with only one CPU. -- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel