netinst.iso poor experience
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 01:17:49 UTC 2013
I tried an install of f18 on a new bare metal machine today. My 1st try was
netinst.iso.
It sat 'installing' for well over an hour, giving _no feedback at all_ as to
what it was doing. I can only guess it was d/l stuff from an overloaded mirror.
I checked periodically, and saw anaconda was using some cpu (5%), so it wasn't
just stuck, and there seemed to be network activity.
That's a pretty poor user experience.
While waiting, I d/l the DVD (which is much more than what netinst should have
been d/l'ing), burned the dvd, and started the install over. Finished the 2nd
attempt OK.
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