Per Jessen wrote:
Jon Nelson wrote:
Even given a very fast local source, 10.1's install is still really quite slow (slower than 9.X and 10.0), for a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons include the almost unbearably long time it (the installer) spends parsing meta-data (ie, "adding a source"). I recently did a number of installations over a local LAN, with the data source being a local httpd and parsing the meta data took a VERY LONG TIME, in the range of several minutes. This on a Duron 750. Even the RPM installation itself (the underlying install of the rpm packages) is slower than it should be.
Yep, this is exactly what I've been talking about.
The parent post makes me really want to give 10.2 a try.
Maybe wait till the first beta is out - the grouping of software packages is being worked on and it's still a little poor in Alpha3.
Per, I must be looking in the wrong place but all I can see is alpha1 at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.2-Alpha2/iso/ . What is the URL for alpha3 or is it arrived at by installing alpha1 and this then being upgraded to alpha3 via <shudder> zmd? Cheers. --