Colony 3, Test report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:27:40AM -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> now that i've thought about it some more, we both missed a more elegant
> solution. this is a one-disc distribution; you can automatically run the
> CD test in the background while the user goes through the normal install
> process. on anything approaching a modern system (less than 10 years
> old), it would hardly be noticeable if noticeable at all.

This isn't so; try it.  This will cause the drive to seek constantly, and
seeking on CD-ROMs is _slow_.

> you might want to move the partitioning closer to the end, and is there
> any reason that ubuntu doesn't do what most other distros do and gather
> all the information first and then do all the installing at once?

The architecture of the installer is such that this isn't trivial, and no
one has implemented it yet.

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 - mdz