On 6/15/2011 5:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:04:59PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
I am generally interested in a basic install. On this Macintosh, VMWare Fusion, installing 64 bit Ubuntu-server-amd64 it's about 10 minutes. Installing 64 bit CentOS 5.6 x86_64 took about an hour. I didn't time anything but I remember clearly. Of course the install from Ubuntu was a single CD iso and CentOS was a DVD iso and the bandwidth at my office is extremely good.
DVD vs CD is irrelevant.
I do not in any way believe your claims of an hour-long install process, even if done manually by walking through anaconda screen by screen.
I've seen vmware disk emulation -> LVM -> partitions run very, very slowly. Didn't diagnose it beyond thinking "if it hurts, don't do it", though. And I don't remember if it was a sparse disk or not, but it probably was. Could have been an issue in the way the growing drive space is allocated on the physical side.