On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
>> > If you want to keep RedHat usable by 486s you have to keep a low
>> > weight GUI and rewrite in C some parts of the install.
>>
>> How does a long install affect the usability of the system? You only
>> have to do it once!
>>
>
>When you see a screen with a progression bar who remains still for
>several minutes, you hear no disk noises (box was not swapping) then
>many users could believe the installation has crashed and hit the
>reset button.
That is a definite issue that needs to be addressed for sure. I
think that this is an area that should be looked into as a high
priority IMHO. Even experienced users will assume that something
has went wrong if there are no visual cues indicating
otherwise. I've rebooted an install on occasion because of an
apparent hang to find out later that it was just something taking
forever to respond, but something was in fact happening.
I don't know how complex the problem is though to understand how
it could be fixed...
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