Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yesterday I had a call from a colleague who was installing SLES 10 to a
server with 1.9TB partition.  She was a bit freaked out because this is
a relatively new thing for her to do and after the first phase of
Installer, "it is hanging on the splash screen for a very long time
doing nothing!"

I knew she had a very large partition and so I told her to hit ESC to
see what is going on in the background, as I had my suspicions.  Sure
enough, it had that message "Drive hasn't been checked in 47829
days" (or whatever the specific line is.)  I told her to just be patient
and let it run its course because she's on a large partition.  I've
already been seeing this on my machines that have 750GB drives.

She had actually tried this on two other similar servers that they had
just bought and was starting to think it was some kind of driver issue
with that particular model.  Obviously, that wasn't the case.

In this day and age of larger drives everywhere from the data center to
the home user, wouldn't it be a good idea if we had some kind of message
between 1st phase and 2nd phase where it says something like "Depending
on the size of your hard drive, this may take a while." before going
into the second phase of installation?

Or maybe this has already been discussed and shot down, in which case,
I'll shut up.

Bryen



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