The Quickest Install

[hard candy]

Last night I was installing Slackware 9.1 from cd on an empty partition (as opposed to upgrading) to test a new filesystem. I realized it had taken me under 20 minutes to install and boot up. So I thought, " That seemed quick, let's start over and time it this time".
This is on a partition already set up, swap had been set up by another installation but the installation still formats it and sets it up. I used Reiserfs with a quick format and no checking for bad blocks.
, I knew the network hostnames, did not need any special parameters, used English, US standard keyboard, and a usb mouse. I have installed Slackware several times so I knew the setup menu very well.
Set up two Windows partitions to be mounted. Installed everything but the foreign language packs.
Did not install lilo since I already had lilo set up and was going to add this installation to it.
Now I do have a 52x cd player, 1 GB memory, and 7200 HD's which helped a lot.
From pressing the start button with the cd in the cd player to rebooting-- 14:47. Not bad.

Beat that, Gentoo! :D

[Dark Ninja]

Beat that, Gentoo!


:: growls ::
:p

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by hard candy

Beat that, Gentoo! :D

And XP.

I reinstalled XP Pro yesterday on my main box as I had previously installed it a few months ago (only for a bit of gaming - Flight Simulator) and had not even gotten around to install all the drivers (Nvidia etc.) yet. A reinstall was required as everytime I booted XP, after 5-10 minutes the entire desktop would go out of focus and would eventually get so bad it was unusable.

So I thought I would take a day off from JL and spend the time doing a few of my own projects for a change. The XP install took around 45 minutes or so and ALL the Windows updates (critical/security/SP's) took over 60 minutes with a few reboots required. So nearly 2 hours for a up to date XP system though without any drivers installed such as Nvidia, 3Com and others.

Now SuSE 9.0/9.1 Pro takes around 1 hour and that is with running the YaST Online Update during installation that results in roughly a 3GB system.

[Dark Ninja]

Absolutely true. I just put XP on my parents computer (couldn't talk 'em in to Linux...yet...I'm working on it!) They're still on dial-up. Ugh...downloading those updates went ALLLLLL night...and ALLL day. And ALLL...well, you get the picture.

Plus...lots and lots of reboots along the way...
That is one of my favorite things about Linux. The only time you need to reboot is when you install a new kernel.

[XiaoKJ]

But if you want fast installs you could always get knoppix..

Any similar small distro could too...MEPIS always worked fine...

puppy? or even better -- linux for floppies!:D

If you want it gentoo could be fast too -- just without X...OOo...:D

[Parcival]

Originally posted by hard candy
Beat that, Gentoo! :D

Why should it do that? :confused:

[plonka2000]

Hi people.
I will be doing a proper install soon on my Asus Pundit.