[TriLUG] Re: request for FC5 install media

[Matthew Lavigne]

Doug,

My guess is that if you have done a 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' that you would have
found that it was running at the lowest throttled speed that it could.  I am
not sure about if the PIII supported some type of speed stepping but I am
almost sure that they did.  More likely that or CDROM being on the same 
channel
as the hard drive would be some of the likely I/O blocks that would drive the
install to be that long.

Matthew Lavigne


Quoting Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov:

> Be sure your friend has more than 256 MB RAM on the computer he wishes to
> install FC5 on.  RPM on FC5 seems to have gotten much more memory
> intensive.
>  My home laptop is a PIII 800 with 256 MB RAM that was running FC4.  I
> burned the 5 CDs for the FC5 upgrade, started with booting off of the first
> CD and 14 HOURS later it was done.  I've done the FC4-->FC5 upgrade on
> other machines with varying amounts of RAM and CPU speed and it "seems"
> that life is much better with 512 MB RAM or more, regardless of cpu speed.
>
> Doug
>