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Bug 22615

Summary:	Installer could start up faster
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pekka Pietikäinen <pp>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Pekka Pietikäinen 2000-12-20 21:26:22 UTC

Currently the .7.1b1 installer seems to load considerably slower than the
one in 7.0

I measured 8 minutes just to get the graphical mode installer loaded on my 
laptop with 12x CD-ROM, my celeron 466/24x DVD took an
"only-slightly-annoying"
amount of time. 

Oh well, I suppose text-mode installs would be ok even on slightly older
hardware, but
that doesn't mean the graphical one should be bloated ;)

A related enhancement request for the installer would be some sort of
"Please wait..."
type message when testing the X server (which the installer needs to load
and install
from the CD), the operation seemed "long enough" for one.

Once the installer was up and running there didn't seem to be any
noticeable
performance problems with it.

Comment 1 Pekka Pietikäinen 2000-12-21 12:38:49 UTC

Seems to be caused by the drives in both machines not reading CD-RW's
nearly as fast as normal CD-R's/CD-ROM's (in the case of the laptop, at
150k/s)

I assume the requirement for the "Please wait..." would go away too
if the X server was read from the CD at a reasonable speed :)