off to a nostart F18B start

[Felix Miata]

On 2012-11-30 23:21 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed:

> Getting to the initial GUI seemed to take forever.

I timed it, from pressing ENTER for the appropriate Grub menu entry to start 
HTTP installation, it took 5 minutes 10 seconds to reach the GUI. Most of the 
time spent with dracut-initqueue times/amounts filling the bottom of the screen.

/proc/cmdline contained:
repo=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/test/18-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/os 
ip=192.168.1.20::192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:myhost::none 
nameserver=192.168.1.1 rd.luks=0 rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 splash=verbose noipv6 
selinux=0 resolution='1024x768' video=1024x768 vga=791 nofirewire

Doing the same thing with F17 kernel/initrd took about 4m 10s.

http://testmy.net/results reports download speed 7.9mbps

Doing the same thing with Mageia 2 took about 2m 10s.
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