Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:39 schrieb Klaus Kaempf:

* Marcel Hilzinger [Nov 24. 2006 11:23]:

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I just saw, that YaST estimates Installlation time to be 45 minutes. This seems too long (from DVD). Older versions installed within 30 minutes or below. Installation seems faster than 45 min, however.

Wrong estimation?

Hardly. The 'extimation' is done by timing actual package installs - thats why you don't get a time estimation during the first couple of packages.

Time to install a package is influenced by - reading from CD/DVD/Network - unpacking the RPM - writing to disk - running pre/post scripts

So its almost guaranteed to be somewhat wrong - always ;-) Yes, but it would be better to be wrong the other way round. So saying it takes 30 minutes and doing it within 35 minutes is better, than saying it takes 45 minutes and it's done within 35.

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Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 12:29 schrieb jdd:

Marcel Hilzinger a écrit :

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Yes, but it would be better to be wrong the other way round. So saying it takes 30 minutes and doing it within 35 minutes is better, than saying it takes 45 minutes and it's done within 35.

certainly not.

I have an appointment in 30 minute, do I have time to install? better have a longer guess than a smaller - less problematic! (could say: "less than xx minutes")

Yes, but since 10.1 SL has the image to be very sloooooow. So with 10.2 installation should be as fast as with 10.1 (what it is in fact). But if YaST says, that installation will take 45 minutes, everybody will remember, that 10.2 takes 45 minutes to install. If you want that, do not change it. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org