Anaconda Accolades

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:53 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:14:59AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 13:08 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > > > Media verification is the default. If it's taking 20+ minutes on a
> > > > physical DVD and we have no progress indicator, that's definitely
> > > > something of a problem.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > As you've said before, it's always been the default.  However in the past,
> > > it was very simple to skip--which I always have because frankly, in RH it's
> > > never been reliable.
> > 
> > 
> > > I don't recollect running into it in recent Beta test installs--is it
> > > something that is as easily skipped as it's always been?
> > 
> > If you catch and read the boot menu it's easy enough to skip - you just
> > pick 'Install Fedora 18' instead of 'Verify media and install Fedora
> > 18'. But you do have to spot it.
> 
> Ok, that works for me.  :)  I don't know if I've spotted it or not, but
> don't recollect noticing anything taking overly long--hrrm, installed
> mostly on VMs from iso images (netinstalls) and from USBs. 

It runs *way* faster in those cases, yeah. Rotating media really is
slow.
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