Why is Fedora so bad at its timing estimates?



As a matter of interest, how does Fedora estimate
the remaining time when installing?
Mine goes up and down like a yo-yo.

I feel I can estimate reasonably well how long
a set of yum installs will take to complete.

I must admit that the estimates given by Windows
when installing are just as bad.

Both Fedora and Windows go into unannounced sulks
during my installations.
Eg, long after I have put in a fresh CD and pressed OK,
Fedora sits there asking me to put in a new CD.

I think if there is likely to be a delay
there should be some explanation of what is happening.

Anaconda 6/10, Windows installation 7/10.

[Windows gets an extra mark,
because if there is an error reading a CD,
Windows allows me to take the CD out
and put in another (or even the same) CD,
and it goes on from where it was.

With Fedora you have to start the whole thing again,
as far as I can see.]




--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list



Relevant Pages

  • Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 69
    ... Management Server ... To All EEEpc and Fedora Users, ... I re-burnt CD 2 to see if it was a glitch but the new disk also came up ... to the boot line while installing. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: fixing/reinstalling grub
    ... James Wilkinson wrote: ... >>grub bootloader after installing Windows. ... windows installation is SO slow compared to fedora. ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro
    ... I'm having issues loading Fedora Core 5. ... I started by installing WinXP on /D1/. ... Then I tried the same but installed GRUB on the first ... Windows doesn't really "like" anything; it's Bill Gates that wants your ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Fedora Core 3 update failure - Help Please - warning! slight newbie moaning
    ... >Had Fedora 3 around for a while but have just installed it for the ... quite a few updates for Fedora 3 available. ... and just got through installing the latest updates with no trouble at ... >this is far better than Windows, ...
    (linux.redhat.misc)
  • Re: Why no R in Fedora (was Statistical Package (like Minitab) for Linux)
    ... > The fedora rpm provided at the CRAN site contains very few add-on ... > packages would provide a large amount of functionality. ... > Users can easily install.packageson top of this more stuff from CRAN. ... > I always seem to end up installing a few packages eg. lineno, ...
    (Fedora)