On 5/18/05, Patrick <patrickm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When installing FC4t3 on my laptop (HP OmniBook XE2, 64MB ram, PIII 333mhz) through NFS, I noticed how sloooooow it was installing. > > I know the laptop isn't a fancy machine, but FC3 did the whole thing in less than 1/3 of time FC4t3 is taking ?!?!? > > Hopefully, FC4 will be quicker... > > The only thing during install that was as quick as "normal" was package selection. As was the actual installation. > So selecting packages and the installing of them were at reasonable speed, but configuring things was slow? With the amount of ram you have, I am assuming that you were using the text mode installer. The only thing I can suggest is to do an install from cds next time, or use slinky from www.rule-project.org/download , as it is designed for low memory systems. Hopefully the homepage will be back up soon and slinky can be updated for FC4. It sounds like anaconda was too slow fetching the next step over nfs, but I thought that it keeps the whole installer in RAM. It could be that anaconda has just bloated more since FC3.