[ubuntu-za] Slow Ubuntu Installation

[Charl Wentzel]

On 30/01/2013 09:00, Tom Bamford wrote:
> This is sounding like a network issue - among other distros, recent 
> Ubuntus exhibit laggy behaviour when the network is not fully 
> reachable and it happens during boot time, login time and when running 
> certain commands such as sudo.
>
> Your attached dmesg.0 indicates your machine is waiting for eth0 to 
> come up before continuing to boot. Your machine is loading the r8169 
> driver, the hardware for which some people seem to have trouble with 
> autonegotiation - potential solution here: 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=250807
>
> If you switch off autoneg, then make sure that your switch and your 
> card are both running with the same speed and duplex else your network 
> performance will drop through the floor.
Thanks Tom!  It looked like the issue, (and I can't tell you how long it 
took me to test it) but unfortunately the fix doesn't work.

What bugs me though is that if this is the issue how would installing 
Ubuntu on another device and transplanting it to this one overcome the 
issues if it still used the same port driver?

Thanks anyway.
Charl