Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:57:47 -0500 From: Derrick Norris <derrick@norris-net.com> To: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, george@vagner.com, roddierod@yahoo.com, gibbons@cityline.ru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slow pkg install in v4.4, was: !!!!! ERROR IN FREEBSD 4.4RELEASES !!!!! Message-ID: <200202080357.g183vmm64154@visar.norris-net.com> In-Reply-To: <F123z6QEy0Dll7fnp3e0000134f@hotmail.com> References: <F123z6QEy0Dll7fnp3e0000134f@hotmail.com>
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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 02:41 am, Charles Burns wrote: > This is a 'Me too' post. I wrote a 4.4 ISO and installed this and > that, and after a few packages were installed, the installer begain > taking a very long time to install the packages. > The installer displays the speed at which data is being read from > the disk. After a while, it said around "940 bytes/sec" IIRC. It > was about right. :-) Oddly, the Linux binary package installed very > fast. This has happened with all installs that I have ever done of > 4.4 from several CDs. I've ordered a pressed copy of 4.5, so we'll > see what happens there. FWIW, the same thing happened to me when I first installed 4.3 -- however I am using an ATAPI CD-ROM drive on a PIII-733 with 256MB of RAM. When the package installation started, linux went by in a flash, then the rest of the stuff crawled along. I never really thought of it as an error -- just chalked it up to extraction/file processing time or something like that. As long as the display was updating (bytes/sec changing etc.), I would just go off and leave it, check on it occasionally and eventually it would be done. After that 4.3 install, I have upgraded through buildworld to 4.4 and now to 4.5, and also since that first install anything I built new or upgraded was built from ports, so I don't know if it still happens during package install in 4.5. I just feel better building from the ports, since I can use my own make.conf etc. Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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