Bless you and good luck on your exam(s)
On 13 Apr 2001 11:42:59 -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
> Millions of electrons died to bring me this message. Was it worth it,
> Nguyen Hung.Takeshi?
> > hi all!
> > I ve chosen full installation for Traktopel3 (install all packages), it took
> > about 3.5 hours ;) while when I tried to isntall Redhat FisherBeta, it took
> > only about 50 mins ;).
> > why?
>
> Does the installer tune the hard disks (hdparm)?
>
> Boot up into the installer, then switch to the second console. Mount a linux
> partition that has hdparm if it isn't on the cd, then test your disk(s). If
> they say something like 3.5 mb/s, they're not tuned.
>
> By doing that trick, I could cut installation time for 7.2 from over an hour
> to twenty minutes. I haven't checked cooker recently, though. (exam crunch :(
>
> --
> Graham Percival
>
