F13 install timings

[John Reiser]

> ... 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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