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Re: Setup and recovering from mistakes.


Zieg, Mark <mark.zieg@lmco.com> wrote:

>>>> Progess [wait]
>>>
>>> How long is the "Progress [wait]" step under what
>>> conditions including CPU speed (mine is very slow, a 486/80)?
>>
>> Less than 1 sec on my P4 1.2GHz. I think you should hear disc access
>> during this phase. (I can't tell - 1GB of RAM allows a lot of disc
>> cache :-) )
>
> Mine is often 15-20sec on 1.7Ghz P4's (.5GB RAM).  Yeah, those
> checksums'll kill you.

There is no checksumming in the currently released setup. Only in the
dev-snapshots.

> Too-early fallback to ctl-alt-del messed me up for a while, too.
> Forgot about that.  Be nice if Setup had a progress bar for that

It does, in the dev-snapshots.

Max.


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