[TriLUG] [SOLVED] RE: Debian 10 (Buster) on Brand-New OptiPlex 3070 Installer is Glacial

[David Both via TriLUG]

You might check its SMART logs. It mmay continue to work at 
significantly reduced speed if there are a lot of bad sectors,

On 8/26/19 9:58 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG wrote:
> Wow.  This is a new one on me.  The culprit turned out to be a HDD I moved from the old machine into the new one prior to starting this process (because that's the drive the VM images live on).  I pulled it to boot the old machine back up and, on a whim, tried starting the installer on the new one again and lo and behold, it's working perfectly.
>
> So: Why would the presence of an ostensibly fully-functional hard drive cause the Debian installer to turn into a creaky old man?
>
> I suppose it remains to be seen what happens once I hook up this drive after a successful Debian installation.
>
> -B
>
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> From: TriLUG <trilug-bounces+bhenning=pineresearch.com at trilug.org> On Behalf Of Brian Henning via TriLUG
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> So here's an update.  It's been left alone all weekend.  I came to it this morning and it's still not to the package selection screen yet; at the moment, it's "unpacking popularity-contest."
>
> Although it seems unlikely that the USB key is to blame, I'm going to try a CD-ROM image.
>
> -Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 9:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Debian 10 (Buster) on Brand-New OptiPlex 3070 Installer is Glacial
>
> On 8/24/19 4:26 PM, Brantley West wrote:
>> I think I remember encountering these symptoms and changing from
>> graphical to text-based installation or vice versa to speed up the
>> process. Hope that helps.
> I started out in text mode.  Then I read somewhere of someone having luck in graphical mode.  Either way is abysmal.
>
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