Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:13:06 +0200 From: "Rob van der List" <rob@salesint.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Installing 4.3 from ISO Message-ID: <000801c11684$ba91dc60$6600000a@salesint.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hey there, Is there a problem with the 4.3 installer which makes it really slow? See below for problem discription... I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.3 image through ftp with getright which segmented it into 8 segments, then I burned it to CD (12speed) and ran the install. At first it went very fast, only when I came to the /usr or the /bin (don't exactly remember... one of both) installation it was only reading at like 20kByte/s (indicated by installer) first I thought it might be the CD so I went back to the ftp and downloaded it with CuteFTP this time so it wouldn't be segmented and burned at 8speed this time (same CD brand/type) but this install does exactly the same, some stuff just goes plain slow. So I booted into windows but this can copy the entire CD to HDD in like 12mins which is a fairly reasonable time for my CD player to copy a full (650MB) CD. So it can't be any read problems. Also I got slackware 8 ISO's and burned them at 12speed (again same CD brand/type all burned in the same recorder also) and the slackware installer (just estimating here) copies with around 2MByte/s (estimated by time it takes to install packages, it does give the size of the packages). Some parts of the FreeBSD install go with 1 to 1.5MBytes a sec but some parts of the install only do 20kBytes/s. The CD player is an A-Open 52X (in all cases again) on a P-II 400 with 128MB RAM and a 3GB Seagate HDD. The HDD and CD-ROM each have their own controller (HDD pri mas CD sec slave) the mainboard is an abit BH6 which is a fairly standard BX mainboard. Where it comes down to is that I can easily install slackware in around 40 mins (without setting it up ofcourse just copying n selecting packages n stuff) while FreeBSD takes me 2 1/2 to 3 hours..... kind regards, Ferry van Steen [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey there,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a problem with the 4.3 installer which makes it really slow? See below for problem discription...</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.3 image through ftp with getright which segmented it into 8 segments, then I burned it to CD (12speed) and ran the install. At first it went very fast, only when I came to the /usr or the /bin (don't exactly remember... one of both) installation it was only reading at like 20kByte/s (indicated by installer) first I thought it might be the CD so I went back to the ftp and downloaded it with CuteFTP this time so it wouldn't be segmented and burned at 8speed this time (same CD brand/type) but this install does exactly the same, some stuff just goes plain slow. So I booted into windows but this can copy the entire CD to HDD in like 12mins which is a fairly reasonable time for my CD player to copy a full (650MB) CD. So it can't be any read problems. Also I got slackware 8 ISO's and burned them at 12speed (again same CD brand/type all burned in the same recorder also) and the slackware installer (just estimating here) copies with around 2MByte/s (estimated by time it takes to install packages, it does give the size of the packages). Some parts of the FreeBSD install go with 1 to 1.5MBytes a sec but some parts of the install only do 20kBytes/s. The CD player is an A-Open 52X (in all cases again) on a P-II 400 with 128MB RAM and a 3GB Seagate HDD. The HDD and CD-ROM each have their own controller (HDD pri mas CD sec slave) the mainboard is an abit BH6 which is a fairly standard BX mainboard. Where it comes down to is that I can easily install slackware in around 40 mins (without setting it up ofcourse just copying n selecting packages n stuff) while FreeBSD takes me 2 1/2 to 3 hours.....</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>kind regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ferry van Steen</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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