RE: [rhelv5-beta-list] SE Manager Info

2006-12-08 Thread James-H . Cornell
Thanks. Someone asked if we were planning to implement SE Manager in our internal release of the build and I was not familiar with its function. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel J Walsh Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:21 PM To:

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Krizak
Yeah these are 8-64GB machines. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775 Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686 Jay Turner wrote: On

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Paul Krizak wrote: Compare: RHEL3 U8 on an HP xw9300 workstation installs in about 11 minutes (5.7GB of packages). RHEL5b Client/Workstation on that exact same system takes over an hour and a half to install 10GB of packages. Anybody else noticed this? I'm seeing

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Krizak
Wow...running with an HTTP-based install cut the time down to 30 minutes (the expected time for 10G of packages) Looks like the NFS code in the PXE kernel is quite b0rked. Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625 Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Krizak
Well...it looks like http method has promise; the installation gets through about 12% finished (1.2G) and at that point estimates 28 minutes for the installation (which is what I'd expect). However, the installation then hangs. Dropping to a shell on the installing system, anaconda is using

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Krizak
The package it's listing on the screen while it hangs is xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.0-2-x86_64, status 100%. As far as I know, the progress bar is for the copy portion only; so this would indicate that the package was downloaded, but that it's hanging running the rpm -i portion. I've tried twice

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread John Summerfield
Dag Wieers wrote: I have seen a slowdown with Fedora's anaconda as well when they switched to the yum backend instead of what they used before. fwiw my upgrade a while go of my laptop (Tosh Sat 1400, 256 Mb, 60 Gbyte fairly new drive) took a full overnight run - it was still going when

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] RHEL5 B2 installs sssllllooowww?

2006-12-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12/8/06, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: I have seen a slowdown with Fedora's anaconda as well when they switched to the yum backend instead of what they used before. fwiw my upgrade a while go of my laptop (Tosh Sat 1400, 256 Mb, 60 Gbyte fairly new drive)