When doing a CD-ROM install, package installation works something like this (I'm basing this on the system sounds alone -- I'll go poke the anaconda source in a minute to see what's *really* happening ;-): 1. CD-ROM spins up, hard drive is idle 2. package is transferred to hard drive from CD-ROM 3. CD-ROM spins down 4. package is installed (3 and 4 are more-or-less simultaneous) Since modern fast CD-ROMs take a long time to spin up and down, the end result is that a lot of time is wasted.... If anaconda transferred multiple packages at once from CD-ROM and staged them temporarily, CD install would be faster
Matt any idea on how to keep the drive motor running?
Other distros have done a "while /bin/true; read from /dev/cdrom > /dev/null; done" for this...
Deferring to future release.
Now that it's new release time I'm reopening this (note: I've not yet gotten to try an install. If the new beta is already doing this, then please close it appropriately)
We have not had any further complaints about CDROM installs so I do not judge this change is necessary.