Yes, your totally right, but I have hear there are some hacks to allow DMA for the CDROM when installing, do you know some thing about it ?? I'm using IDE CDROM. BTW, what's your installation time ?? Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Burger > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 19:26 > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RH9 Installation time > > > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Joe wrote: > > > Guys, > > I would like to know about your personal experiences, > > I takes about 2 hours to install the full system (4.8GB), > > I have a Dell Power Edge 2.4Ghz 512Ram and 78GB scsi. > > > > Is there something I can do to speed up the installation process ?? > > Shouldn't I expect more from Power Edge/Redhat combination ?? > > Not really...you still have bottlenecks in the disk (hard and > compact) > access areas. > > Remember, your system is only as fast as its slowest component. > > -- > Mike Burger > http://www.bubbanfriends.org > > Visit the Dog Pound II BBS > telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 > > To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: > > site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > with a message of: > > subscribe > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike> -list >