From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 19:58: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from visar.norris-net.com (adsl-156-80-201.asm.bellsouth.net [66.156.80.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4342F37B41E for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:58:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from derrick@localhost) by visar.norris-net.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g183vmm64154; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:57:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from derrick) Message-Id: <200202080357.g183vmm64154@visar.norris-net.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Derrick Norris Reply-To: derrick@norris-net.com To: "Charles Burns" , george@vagner.com, roddierod@yahoo.com, gibbons@cityline.ru Subject: Re: Slow pkg install in v4.4, was: !!!!! ERROR IN FREEBSD 4.4RELEASES !!!!! Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:57:47 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 06 February 2002 02:41 am, Charles Burns wrote: > This is a 'Me too' post. I wrote a 4.4 ISO and installed this and > that, and after a few packages were installed, the installer begain > taking a very long time to install the packages. > The installer displays the speed at which data is being read from > the disk. After a while, it said around "940 bytes/sec" IIRC. It > was about right. :-) Oddly, the Linux binary package installed very > fast. This has happened with all installs that I have ever done of > 4.4 from several CDs. I've ordered a pressed copy of 4.5, so we'll > see what happens there. FWIW, the same thing happened to me when I first installed 4.3 -- however I am using an ATAPI CD-ROM drive on a PIII-733 with 256MB of RAM. When the package installation started, linux went by in a flash, then the rest of the stuff crawled along. I never really thought of it as an error -- just chalked it up to extraction/file processing time or something like that. As long as the display was updating (bytes/sec changing etc.), I would just go off and leave it, check on it occasionally and eventually it would be done. After that 4.3 install, I have upgraded through buildworld to 4.4 and now to 4.5, and also since that first install anything I built new or upgraded was built from ports, so I don't know if it still happens during package install in 4.5. I just feel better building from the ports, since I can use my own make.conf etc. Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message