On 08/28/2009 01:44 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Joachim Backes wrote:
> I installed F12 alpha from the DVD and had the feeling that the
> network is used during installation. So the installation was awful
> slow.
>
> For confirming this, I tried to install again after having
> de-activated the LAN chip in the BIOS, and, indeeded, the
> installation was cancelled (after the install partition had been
> formatted).
>
> Is there any option for installing F12 without accessing the LAN (I
> have DSL with 1 Megabit/sec)?
this sounds suspiciously like an issue i ran into some time back
with a *virtual* installation on F11
I was not *virtually* installing, but on a real HD partition.
-- the network was being used
despite there being no reason for it. maybe it's related, maybe
not.
rday
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