Re: [Debconf-discuss] Speeding up the installer

2017-04-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[shirish शिरीष] > Interesting. While I see that it both has an upside as well as > downside, has anybody tried any non-scientific runs to see how much > difference does it make in an actual install using that option ? I did some years ago on a slow machine, see http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/bl

Re: [Debconf-discuss] installation report on installation failure and having net install for minimal installations .

2017-04-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:28 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > As we are getting near to Debconf there are two workshops I would like > to see and both probably are part of Debian QA . > > 1. Installation report on installation failure ... > 2. A related scenario is if some hardware is dead - AFAIK in >

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Speeding up the installer (Was: installation report on installation failure and having net install for minimal installations .)

2017-04-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On 24/04/2017, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [shirish शिरीष] >> 3. Net install for minimal installations - Doing full installations is >> very time-consuming. Here the usb disks as well as ATA/IDE are both >> bottlenecks and a desktop install takes at least 30-45 minutes. > > One way to

[Debconf-discuss] Speeding up the installer (Was: installation report on installation failure and having net install for minimal installations .)

2017-04-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[shirish शिरीष] > 3. Net install for minimal installations - Doing full installations is > very time-consuming. Here the usb disks as well as ATA/IDE are both > bottlenecks and a desktop install takes at least 30-45 minutes. One way to try to speed up the installation a bit is to install the eatmy

[Debconf-discuss] installation report on installation failure and having net install for minimal installations .

2017-04-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Sorry, this would be a bit long - As we are getting near to Debconf there are two workshops I would like to see and both probably are part of Debian QA . 1. Installation report on installation failure - At times when you are installing Debian either on too new hardware or too old, obsole