Ubuntu Done Quick

[mob]

I had that question once, but i realize that i prefer to have a large
install process rather than a large boot process, so if it's necesary
to sacrifice some minutes on install to make it boot faster, i'll do
it :D

2005/7/8, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr>:
> > How fast can Ubuntu be installed, theoretically?  It takes me about
> > 45-50 minutes on an AMD64 with serial ATA hard drive;
> 
> Huuu, I have a 3+ year old machine, no fancy 64bit CPU or SATA disk, and
> the install is much quicker than this.
> CPU is 1.45 Ghz (Athlon XP 1700+), disk is an old 40Gig 7200rpm 2MB
> thing.
> I have installed Ubuntu many times on this machine, Wart, hoary, Breezy,
> and the install is as predictable as the a sunrise : 25 min from booting
> the CD up to logging in to the desktop for the first time.
> 
> > In the end, what do you think the overall time would be?  20 minutes?
> > Most of the time is wasted as stuff gets copied off the CD reeeeallly
> > slow during install. . . .
> 
> I timed this. It takes about only 5 minutes to copy the packages to the
> disk. The first phase : "installing base system" takes about 2 minutes,
> then the next phase "Copying remaining packages..." takes about 3
> minutes. About half of the time is spent configuring all the packages.
> The fonts, locales, python and Open Office being particularly long to
> set up, I find.
> I am not sure how the install could be made much faster. And 25 minutes
> from start to finish, is very good I find. I don't think it's worth
> trying to make it quicker for the sake of it. It's just an install after
> all.
> 
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> Vince
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Saludos!

Matias Orellana
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