[Rule-list] Modifying the current anaconda--progress update

[Taylor, ForrestX]

I am still testing, but I do have some new info.

I have been testing using kickstart files.  I just tried a regular install,
and it seems to be much faster--about three times faster.  This may limit
our use of kickstart on low-memory machines.

The installation that I had started just died after two days.  It sounded
like a hard drive malfunction, so I tested the drive with the WD Data
Lifeguard disk, and I checked the memory with memtest86.  Nothing showed up,
so I am re-burning my discs.  This may be a low-memory problem, so it is
worth investigating.

Before I started re-burning the discs, I decided to try a regular
(non-kickstart) install, choosing only a minimum of packages.  I did the
custom install, and chose:

X Window System (but not KDE or GNOME)
Network Support
Messaging and Web Tools
Utilities
Software Development

These were 978MB, and it took a little over an hour (until it died with 8
packages left).  If you want, I can post my boot.img (or put it on the
web/ftp site), and everyone else can try it on their low-memory systems [or
use mem=16M at the boot prompt].

Forrest


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Fioretti [mailto:null_address"http://lists.hellug.gr/mailman/listinfo/rule-list">m.fioretti at inwind.it]
> 
> Forrest,
> 
> any news on this?
> 
> 	Ciao,
> 		Marco
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 09:34:15 at 09:34:15AM -0800, Taylor, 
> ForrestX wrote:
> > Well, I am still waiting for the installer to complete.
> > 
> > For those who haven't been following my work on the 
> enigma-list (Red Hat), I
> > tried to simply change the code in anaconda allowing for 
> 8000K RAM instead
> > of the default 17000K.  I tried removing packages until it 
> fit on one disc,
> > and used 'linux mem=16M'.  The install took over three 
> hours on a PIII
> > 500MHz [1153MB of total packages].  I tried the standard 
> two-disc set, with
> > the modified anaconda, and I am awaiting the results.
> > 
> > It doesn't look too promising, as it has been 20 hours, and 
> it still hasn't
> > started installing packages.  It now has the Processing 
> [Preparing to
> > install...] screen, but the progress bar has not started.
> > 
> > Once (if) this finishes, I will try one further test with 
> this disc-set.  I
> > want to select minimal packages [currently I have selected 
> 1739 MB of total
> > packages], and see if that is any faster.
> > 
> > I will keep you all updated.
> > 
> > Forrest

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