... stripped down kickstart server install of about 389 packages:
enablefilesystems 3:10s
postselection 24:27s
installpackages 14:30s
The install spends a long time displaying "Checking dependencies
in
packages selected for installation" with no movement of the progress bar.
Interestingly a much larger install set on a laptop took only 1:34s
in
postselection.
Are you sure that the optical drive on the server is OK? Those times for
postselection (tens of minutes) smell like slow hardware [microcode]
recovery for seek errors.
Transfer the DVD to a USB2.0 flash memory device, boot the netinstall CD
with extra parameter 'askmethod', choose local harddrive, and select the
flash memory partition as the source of the Fedora 13 tree. Postselection
should take less than one minute.
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