Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5 on Alienware laptop

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Jan 26 10:09:38 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 00:17 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I remember that it took hours to install Fedora with a large package
> selection set. All the constant updating of the RPM database, with
> each installed package, burns up a lot of time.

I didn't think it updated/checked with each package as it went through,
it did a lot of data churning about dependencies, etc., before doing the
pack installation.  It might spend a minute or two thinking about what
it was going to do (at least it did, for me, since I didn't install
much, and didn't change much beyond the defaults).

Loading lots of little files from CDs and DVDs is slow, you have a
device with a comparatively slow seek speed, and a none-too-fast data
transfer speed.  That's where loading a big disc image blob from a DVD
makes a big improvement to speed.

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